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Yeah, when I stated that it literally wouldn’t be a dilemma any more it’s because having the prisoners sitting in the same interrogation room would destroy it, the same way playing poker with your cards backwards would destroy the game to the point where it cannot really be considered poker any more.

Wasn’t making a smarter point than that. :)

Well, sure, it’s if they are in the same room or they can hear through the walls or whatever. An actual flow of information, not just them lying to each other.

Two prisoners are arrested.

Both are given a choice: Rat out your buddy, and we’ll let you go with one year in prison. Keep your moth shut and we’ll give you four years. If you keep your moth shut and your buddy rats you out, you’ll get ten. If you both rat, you both get eight years.

The dominant strategy of both prisoners is to speak: In either case, ratting on their buddy will lower their punishment. However, if both prisoners choose this strategy, they end up losing collectively: Rather than both receiving four years as they would if they both kept their moth shut, they both yet eight years because they both talk.

That’s the basics of the dilemma. The years don’t matter, just the ranking of preferences.

If the prisoners can communicate, they will know that the other prisoner didn’t talk, and if one prisoner opens his mouth, he will know that the other prisoner will immediately do the same.

I learned the prisoner’s dilemma when I studied game theory. The fact that it depends on a lack of information flowing between the prisoners and that snitching is only the dominant strategy when it’s a single-round game is just parts of the assumptions of the dilemma.

The prisoner’s dilemma depends on the fact that the two prisoners cannot cooperate. If you allow information to flow between them it’s literally not a dilemma any more.

So yes.

If you mean cooperation with the police, how the hell did you derive that from my text?

I currently live in Denmark. I have to admit I’m not following the public debate here very carefully, and there are plenty of backwards people around who will shout loudly about just about anything, but any reversal (or anything else than gradual strengthening) of trans rights would come as a huge surprise to me.

I am open for the possibility that I’m simply not following close enough. But I think the problem with trans rights is that it has become politicized, when it is really not a political issue. The fact that I have not heard about it at all in the public debate here is therefore, in my opinion, a good sign. For sure one can dig up shitty opinions if one starts looking for it, but they have not been given a defining role in the public debate as is the case in many countries.

Yeah, I’m not going to make the argument that people are fundamentally good either, and they are shaped by the media landscape they consume.

I live in a country where trans rights are not really questioned, and where I am feeling confident that they won’t be. Of course it still has ways to go and there are bad people, but trans rights have not become effectively politicized and it’s just not a point of contention.

It’s no fundamental rule of society that we have to go around hating each other. It’s a construct. That doesn’t mean it’s not the case where you live, but it’s something that can be changed.

Leftists and other assorted humanists and progressives are wildly unpopular because most of the public simply can’t imagine not having the sheer bloodlust they have for thy neighbor.

Believe it or not, this is not a necessity of human nature. It’s just your society that’s fucked up. And it’s probably not even that bad if you go out and talk to people rather than judge society by the distorted reflection given on social media.

Social media is probably the most powerful propaganda tool of all times.

In the 1960s you would say the same thing about TV, and you’d be right. Before that it was the cinema. It’s not because the mediums as such are inherently evil, but they carry an inherent power that can be used for evil.

Currently, social media is very much being used for evil.

There is, however, another element to it, and one that is completely new for social media. That’s the illusion that we can actually contribute in a meaningful way by participating.

Nobody believes they are actively fighting fascism by watching TV all day. Yet, on social media, well-meaning people are wasting their time shouting at clouds rather than going out in the real world and and actually achieve anything. They collectively tread in water as democracy dies, all the while they feel like they are “doing their part”. In other words, social media is pacifying as fuck.

I participate in the Fediverse because I have hope that we are building something different here; something that can derail the platforms that are currently used for evil, and something where the organization of actual opposition can be possible. I think it might be. But I am also afraid I am just wasting my time.

Social media is literally just a fairly accurate reflection of us as a species and our civilization.

Strong disagree. Capitalists sell it to us as a mirror, but it’s a distorted mirror that shows us exactly what they want us to see for whatever reason.

If they want to sell us diet pills, they will turn it into one of those amusement park mirrors that makes you look fat. If they want to overthrow democracy, they’ll turn it into a mirror where everyone standing around you suddenly look suspicious and cruel. And if the Russians want to pay them to get control of what people will see in the mirror, hell - that’s just freedom of expression.

Add on top that pretty much everyone on earth is staring mindlessly into the mirror for hours every day, and you got yourself what I would consider to be a problem.

Yeah, I personally don’t believe in blacklisting specific words as a moderation policy in general.

I think it has served Lemmy well though - the automatic filtering of certain words might have deterred some deplorable people from settling down here. :)

I think it’s fine like this - gets the point across!

I think the Lemmy devs included automatic removal of some words on the platform, but it can be disabled by instance admins. It caused some funny problems in the early days of Lemmy, as banned words could sometimes appear in completely harmless settings/inside other words. Not sure what has happened since or on which instances it’s currently enabled.

In either case I maintain that there’s a difference between free speech (cool) and hate speech (not cool).

I made a slight tweak to OP’s image, in case people want to share the picture on other networks. :)

Leasing it to a farmer seems like the obvious choice. I’m not sure digital nomads would be all that interested in working in the middle of a field.

I’d love to see land like this returning to nature with native vegetation, but that would take a really long time and doesn’t come with an obvious path to making a profit. Unless you sell it to developers for a higher price in a few years, of course.

They are also very open that this is an early beta, so I’m sure things are still subject to change. But getting the handles right as soon as possible should probably be a priority.

I’m not sure what would be best with regards to the different journalists. I guess people often want to follow topics or sites rather than individual authours. I guess each post could be posted to a main site and then automatically boosted by relevant sub-users such as individual journalists and specific topics.

404 Media has already enabled it, and can be followed at @[email protected]!

I hope eventually these feeds will have better user names than “index”.

I don’t know anything about its history on Lemmy and I haven’t really seen it discussed online at all. I guess I live under a rock.

The one place I have been exposed to it is in this amazing write-up, which I encountered via Mastodon some time ago. For me it provided a perfect introduction to the argument, and gave me a lot to think about even though I am by no means ignorant to feminism and my position as a man in society.

Highly recommend the read, both to men and women. It’s extremely well written.

Where do you see your life going?

Accountability is a bet on a stable routine. You’ll go to work, earn money, go home, spend money. A lot of people are happy with this.

Languages could take you many directions, with endless opportunities to climb into various international organizations and take on a broad range of tasks. If you’re willing to work hard and move around, you could have a very interesting life. If you want to stay where you are, options are likely to be more limited.

Physiotherapy offers maybe a middle ground. You won’t climb as much, but there’s work, and you can move around if you want to, even though work will not require it. You can have a routine in life, but one that is maybe easier to break free from if you want to.

As you like the idea of a stable monotonous office job,maybe accounting is perfect for you. Personally I need something that pushes me around a bit - I’m terrified of staying in one place far too long.

I agree - but I also appreciate that all instances of Mbin and PieFed combined currently have fewer monthly active users than lemmy.dbzer0.com alone, which is only the seventh biggest Lemmy instance. So for now it doesn’t make much of a dent whether we’re counted or not. :)

Fedidb observes 50k monthly active users. 65% of these are distributed between instances with more than 2000 monthly active users, making up the five biggest instances. Half (51%) are on either Lemmy.world or Lemm.ee, which are the only instances with more than 3000 monthly active users.

A fourth of us are on instances with less than 1000 monthly active users.

I don’t think that’s all that bad. But who am I to say, I’m not even part of the statistic. :)