eyeno wrote:Sorry, but i'm skeptical that technology has overtaken the conversation.
Well if so, I think it might be broken or something... There's one good cure-all for a malfunctioning computer:
eyeno, you're new here. It's not your fault. It happened to all of us once.
AD does paste in a lot of articles, and basically only converses when there's an opportunity to pet the whole thread from tail to head, over and over again, until it finally reaches around and swats at him, which he takes as license to hold the thread down by force and pet it even harder in the wrong direction until it passes out from having its thready little lungs crushed under the weight of his fasces. That's his schtick.
But what you wouldn't know, being new, is that on at least one occasion I couldn't possibly find right now if I tried, another poster in the NY-NJ-PA area has claimed in passing to have met AD in person and had a wonderful time, over drinks with a small group of RI posters if I remember correctly. I want to say it was beeline who mentioned this here once, but I could be wrong. Can someone corroborate this please, since AD won't address anything asked of him directly? AD's identity as an organic human being here depends on it, and we certainly couldn't ask him to provide us with a scan of his birth certificate, now can we?
Unless AI's sophisticated enough to convince a paranoid bar booth full of other RI personalities that it too is a real person has been developed inexpensively enough for one to be allocated almost exclusively for disrupting RI on a regular basis and very very occasionally making a convincing human appearance somewhere? I doubt that, on the face of it.
Now with all that said, also since you're new here, you have to understand why we have a moderation rule against calling other posters out as agent provocateurs or any other form of mal-intended board disruptor. That being:
The community would collapse neatly into its own footprint in a matter of weeks if we didn't.
You need to proceed on this board under the assumption that one or more lurkers and one or more active posters are willing participants in a long-term project to at least monitor if not subtly disrupt this board whenever we get too close to dangerous truths that might radicalize some of us into action against the entities involved, but you need to behave on this board like everybody is here in earnest and in free agency as truth seekers constructing deeper understandings of and better solutions to all the world's problems either created or exacerbated by fascism in any form.
The reason you must behave this way is because feeding into paranoid disruption of constructive conversation meets or exceeds the goals of any potential troublemakers present, and not giving way to call-outs, lynch mobs and courts of public opinion stifles and drastically reduces their potential vectors of attack on conversational momentum here. Let them out themselves first, then we'll all run them out of town with torches pitchforks, but not a second before.
In short, the only way we can defeat disruption here is to pretend it's not happening, and that any disruption is the result of ego imbalance, which is also more statistically probable assuming all posters are human beings with neurochemical consciousness, which is also more fruitful to assume unless an AI outs itself as an AI, which you have to wonder whether that's even possible at any rate.
If nothing on-topic is accomplished with this thread, it's my sincerest hope that it at least inspires AD to be less irritating, interrogatory and, well, fascist, and just generally open up more to constructive dialogue. Double bonus if he stops begging us to invent a drinking game involving his use of italics, bold, and large font size, which might help the rest of us if my aforementioned hopes for inspiration are not realized.
