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    1. Thomas T. Hills. The calculus of ignorance. Behavioural Public Policy, 7(3):846–850, July 2023. URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioural-public-policy/article/calculus-of-ignorance/14E02A10E307E3FDEFE0E7C86D9E4126 (visited on 2024-04-01), doi:10.1017/bpp.2022.6.

      reading this text i found that it is on deliberating what motivated peoples willingness to ignore certain things and how we may go about fixing it. The author summarizes his answer and findings by saying that peoples choices are formed by what they know and how they learned it as well as the cost and benefit of finding out more.

      The author also makes a comment saying that ignorance has costs and benefits, in previous classes specifically ones that have to do with social sciences of literature i have read much into the topic of ignorance and choosing not to pick sides and how these are the greatest perils of our population.

    1. The data in question here is over what percentage of Twitter users are spam bots, which Twitter claimed was less than 5%, and Elon Musk claimed is higher than 5%.

      I made a comment in the last chapter that is slightly similar to what i will say now, but it is interesting to me the slight give and take regarding large platforms and their relationships with bots. My take is That the platforms make money in general by having many users and interaactions, but users don't want to have the impression that they are just interacting and seeing bots all over their social media. So it is interesting that about 5% of users in x may be bots.

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    1. Buy TikTok Followers. 2023. URL: https://www.socialwick.com (visited on 2023-12-02).

      I find this website so interesting, while i was exploring i compared what followers the platform finds most valuble. I found that 1000 followers on tiktok cost 127 while the same amount in instagram cost 115, the same amount on x cost 208, on youtube 288, facebook 104 and spotify 66. It is interesting the most expensive followers to purchase are subscribers to your youtube, i wonder what the reason for this is, is it supply/demand or possibly how strict certain sites are. on bots, I also wonder if certain platforms are happy about bots as they are a substantial amount of "users" and "interractions" added to their platform.

    1. But, since the donkey does not understand the act of protest it is performing, it can’t be rightly punished for protesting. The protesters have managed to separate the intention of protest (the political message inscribed on the donkey) and the act of protest (the donkey wandering through the streets). This allows the protesters to remain anonymous and the donkey unaware of it’s political mission.

      This is so interesting, to have an object that is very obviously not aware of its purpose being to protest let alone what it is specifically protesting. Yet, it is making an impact on the creators behalf using their beliefs .

  4. Mar 2026
    1. Actions are judged on the sum total of their consequences (utility calculus)

      Adding to Consequentialism :

      According to consequentialism a morally right act is one that produces a good outcome.

      Consequentialist theories have different definitions on what is considered a morally good outcome, these show variance in things like pleasure, the absance of pain, having preferences satisfied,

    2. Actions are judged on the sum total of their consequences (utility calculus)

      adding to Consequentialism :

      According to consequentialism a morally right act is one that produces a good outcome.

      Consequentialist theories have different definitions on what is considered a morally good outcome, these show variance in things like pleasure, the absance of pain, having preferences satisfied etc.

    1. Why did so many people see it?

      So many people saw this tweet because first of all her message targeted an entire continent, anyone who saw the message and was outraged was likely inclined to interract and send it to more people. Secondly an article being written on the tweed is a huge way of spreading it to a new audience that may have not seen it otherwise.