Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Philosophy Wire: Polite robots… Desperate humans…

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New members of online communities are more likely to stick around if they're welcomed by fellow members - but Nickerson and his team found that new Wikipedia users who interacted with advisor- and protector-bots were significantly more likely to become long-term contributors than those greeted by humans. That remained true even when the bots were contacting users to point out errors or delete their contributions, as long as the bots were cordial and clear about their reasons. [1] All we want is love. And kindness. And even when it is not there, we will invent it. And we will see through this rough cosmos at its true potential. And we will find love where there is only void. And we will see death where all we saw was the terror of life…

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