#impossibility — Public Fediverse posts
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A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1890-02), “The Sign of the Four,” ch. 6 [Holmes], Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, Vol. 45 (US) / 1 (UK)More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/2…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arthurconandoyle #sherlockholmes #sherlock #answer #conclusion #deduction #elimination #evidence #explanation #impossibility #improbability #processofelimination #solution #truth
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A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1890-02), “The Sign of the Four,” ch. 6 [Holmes], Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, Vol. 45 (US) / 1 (UK)More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/2…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arthurconandoyle #sherlockholmes #sherlock #answer #conclusion #deduction #elimination #evidence #explanation #impossibility #improbability #processofelimination #solution #truth
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A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1890-02), “The Sign of the Four,” ch. 6 [Holmes], Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, Vol. 45 (US) / 1 (UK)More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/2…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arthurconandoyle #sherlockholmes #sherlock #answer #conclusion #deduction #elimination #evidence #explanation #impossibility #improbability #processofelimination #solution #truth
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A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1890-02), “The Sign of the Four,” ch. 6 [Holmes], Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, Vol. 45 (US) / 1 (UK)More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/2…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arthurconandoyle #sherlockholmes #sherlock #answer #conclusion #deduction #elimination #evidence #explanation #impossibility #improbability #processofelimination #solution #truth
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 27, The Last Hero [Leonard] (2001)More info about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/4715…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #constraints #imagination #impossibility #limits #possibility #reality #safety #limitations
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CW: NSFW, CSAM, DEpol, Polizei, CSA
@kkarhan translation: "It's not an #impossibility, but rather an #unwillingness to #delete!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndk0nfppc_k
But I think it's wrong on principle, because the "additional profit" of catching perpetrators with "well-known abuse material" isn't really worth much more.
Just having a user account in a #pedo forum can be considered "membership in a criminal organization" (because that was the thinking behind the persecution of Xplosives.net users)...
The only thing that helps is #DeleteInsteadOfBlocking...
Otherwise, hardly anyone will complain about the #sabotage, quite the opposite!Most #filehosters automatically add #CSAM to their own "#ContentID" #filter based on the checksum (SHA-1 + MD5 to rule out possible collisions), and when the same file is reuploaded, they sometimes automatically notify law enforcement authorities based on the uploading IP address and block accounts.
Even *"#Darknet" search engines are kicking out pedo sites!"
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A quotation from D. C. Fontana
KIRK: Charlie, there are a million things in this universe you can have and there are a million things you can’t have. It’s no fun facing that, but that’s the way things are.
CHARLIE: Then what am I going to do?
KIRK: Hang on tight and survive. Everybody does.
CHARLIE: You don’t.
KIRK: Everybody, Charlie. Me, too.Dorothy Catherine "D. C." Fontana (1939-2019) television screenwriter, story editor
Star Trek, 2×02 “Charlie X” [Prod. 08] (1966-09-15) [with Gene Roddenberry]Sourcing, notes: wist.info/fontana-d-c/7201/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #startrek #startrektos #acceptance #desire #endurance #hangon #hanginthere #humancondition #impossibility #possibility #survival #want
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Content moderation is, inherently, a subjective practice.
Despite some people’s desire to have content moderation be more scientific and objective, that’s impossible.
By definition, content moderation is always going to rely on judgment calls,
and many of the judgment calls will end up in gray areas where lots of people’s opinions may differ greatly.Indeed, one of the problems of content moderation that we’ve highlighted over the years is that to make good decisions you often need a tremendous amount of #context,
and there’s simply no way to adequately provide that at scale in a manner that actually works.That is, when doing content moderation at scale, you need to set rules,
but rules leave little to no room for understanding context and applying it appropriately.And thus, you get lots of crazy edge cases that end up looking bad.
We’ve seen this directly.
Last year, when we turned an entire conference of “content moderation” specialists into content moderators for an hour,
we found that there were exactly zero cases where we could get all attendees to agree on what should be done in any of the eight cases we presented.Further, people truly underestimate the impact that “#scale” has on this equation.
Getting 99.9% of content moderation decisions at an “acceptable” level probably works fine for situations when you’re dealing with 1,000 moderation decisions per day,
but large platforms are dealing with way more than that.If you assume that there are 1 million decisions made every day,
even with 99.9% “accuracy”
(and, remember, there’s no such thing, given the points above),
you’re still going to “miss” 1,000 calls.But 1 million is nothing.
On Facebook alone a recent report noted that there are 350 million photos uploaded every single day.And that’s just photos.
If there’s a 99.9% accuracy rate,
it’s still going to make “mistakes” on 350,000 images.
Every. Single. Day.So, add another 350,000 mistakes the next day. And the next. And the next. And so on.
And, even if you could achieve such high “accuracy” and with so many mistakes,
it wouldn’t be difficult for, say, a journalist to go searching and find a bunch of those mistakes
— and point them out.This will often come attached to a line like
“well, if a reporter can find those bad calls, why can’t Facebook?”
which leaves out that Facebook DID find that other 99.9%.Obviously, these numbers are just illustrative, but the point stands that when you’re doing content moderation at scale,
the scale part means that even if you’re very, very, very, very good, you will still make a ridiculous number of mistakes in absolute numbers every single day.So while I’m all for exploring different approaches to content moderation,
and see no issue with people calling out failures when they (frequently) occur,
it’s important to recognize that there is no perfect solution to content moderation,
and any company, no matter how thoughtful and deliberate and careful is going to make mistakes.Because that’s #Masnick’s #Impossibility #Theorem
— and unless you can disprove it, we’re going to assume it’s true
https://www.techdirt.com/2019/11/20/masnicks-impossibility-theorem-content-moderation-scale-is-impossible-to-do-well/ -
« There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them. »
― André Gide