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The Future of Comments Is Lies, I Guess
’ve been involved in content moderation since roughly 2004. I’ve built spam prevention for corporate and personal e-mail, moderated open-source mailing lists and IRC channels, worked at a couple social media networks, and help moderate a Mastodon instance for a few hundred people.
It cleverly critiques the complexity and absurdity of some technical interviews by illustrating how type-level Haskell can be pushed to esoteric extremes beautiful, powerful, and largely impractical. In recent weeks I’ve received vague voice messages from strangers with uncanny speech patterns just asking to catch up—a sentence which, had I uttered it prior to 2023, would have been reasonably interpreted as a sign of psychosis. Social networks have responded to these attacks via out-of-band mechanisms: IP reputation analysis, javascript and mobile app fingerprinting, statistical correlation across multiple accounts, and so on.
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