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brah, this is a 4 month old account that has ragebaited the fuck out of multiple people including you and me.

we should assume he is a LLM powered agitprop account or someone mentally unwell and stop wasting time on it.



But… but… https://xkcd.com/386/


Undoubtedly but I meant more that his behavior is indistinguishable from an LLM prompted to divide and his account age means that’s entirely possible.

Whether human or bot, if the behaviors the same, might as well ignore them


No doubt. It was clearly a waste of effort to engage.


Post-Trump, I’ve been noting accounts with unhinged and hateful opinions, auto-flagging and downvoting whenever I see them around, and getting on with my life. (Or aspiring to, anyway.) Yelling at people who are aggressively wrong on the internet is hardly worth my time: there’s too many of them and they never change their mind. But perhaps I can make them feel unwelcome and cause them to leave.


I try really hard to assume good intentions and take the most charitable interpretation which leads me at times to engage with people like this. I need to recalibrate.

The most charitable interpretation sometimes is that the person is trolling rather than crazy and willfully misinformed.




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