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duxup 2 hours ago

I believe in some form of the Twitter poisoning theory:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/11/opinion/trump-musk-kanye-...

It seems to explain some of the weirdest of hang ups and strange / desperate choices.

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CamperBob2 38 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

That's a nice essay from Lanier. Operant conditioning is certainly something everybody on HN has experienced, watching the numbers next to their posts go up and down.

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Henchman21 39 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

All of what currently ails western society online is likely to be a russian psyop. All of it. We've left ourselves open to direct manipulation.

	▲	CamperBob2 38 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		No, we did this to ourselves. Blaming Russia is the easy way out... even when it's likely true, as in the trajectory of Trump's career. A healthy, rational society would be much harder to bamboozle -- by Russians or demagogues or preachers or billionaires or anyone else -- than Americans have proven to be. Over the last 10-20 years, many events that I thought would serve to immunize us to BS have fed an addiction instead.