This professor was being accused of sexually harassing women, and these real women who were very upset to find out that @Sciencing_Bi, who was trying to join in their cases, was not a real person.
I can see why this in particular upset people. Through the lens of consequentialism especially one can see how unethical this is. Fake allegations delegitimize real people coming out against abusers. This is not just a harmless lie, this has negative consequences
To ensure the survival of their ethnicity, cultures, and languages, they depend on being able to trust each other
I think that humans like to have things play out according to their expectations. In hunter gatherer societies correct decisions (that play out as expected) were rewarded with food or shelter. Decisions that did not pan out as expected were met with problems (not finding food, not finding shelter). The group dynamic aspect of this could be a result of these even more basic human traits.
Although such communities are often pictured as being prehistoric, primitive, and obsolete, we now know that such societies were and are highly sophisticated, often developing and depending on highly specified legal codes, some of which are still in use today in Bedouin communities in North Africa
Even monkeys do not like to be tricked. This experiment of a monkey getting a worse reward than his friend results in quite the reaction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meiU6TxysCg . Even monkeys have an idea of what is fair and unfair. Humans view being tricked as unfair.
So, if we wanted to go through all the the users that liked our tweet and display a message for each one, we could do this:
Are 'for' and 'in' words that are understood by python or do they have to be assigned value. Is that what the praw does?
we are again in a world full of rumors and conspiracy theories
We have already seen the effect of bots in relation to conspiracy theories but it will be interesting to see how AI is used with this. For instance a bot that has online conversations using a service like ChatGPT.
One of the main reasons for this is that what time or day it is depends on what time zone you are in.
If you were coding in a tweet date would you write it as the persons time zone who posted it or the way it appears to whatever computer you are running the program off of? I could see how this causes problems. What if one program was being run in multiple time zones.
Largely due to historical peculiarities in the development of programming languages,
How set in stone are these types of early computing decisions? Surely they become industry standard but would there not also be new systems that make previous methods/ annotations obsolete?
of buying fake followiers, or making fake crowds that appear to support a cause (called Astroturfing).
This is also a large thing in the music industry. Artists will make bots that stream their songs resulting in them having higher streaming numbers then they otherwise would. It can get peoples attention but often times astroturfing is easy to see through.
“bots” to mean inauthentically run accounts
I have also heard this term in reference to someone who posts/ does something stupid. I think it is a reference to bots in video games who are not usually capable of high level gameplay.
Meaning: only follow rules that you are ok with everyone else following.
Kantian ethics reminds me a lot of the golden rule. One issue that I have with this framework is that it does not provide a wide scope of reference for viewing ethical outcomes. Doing things that you would be ok for everyone else to do fails to take in the perspective of others. It only considers what the individual deems acceptable behavior, not other parties involved.
What motivated Twitter users to put time and energy into this?
The ongoing nature of the story likely motivated users to stay involved. The personal nature of twitters design added fuel to the fire as well. It allows people to become investigative journalists of a sort, digging deeper into the event and Justine's life.