I did some analysis of the modlog and found this:

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Ok, bigger instances ban more often. Not surprising, because they have more communities and more users and more trouble. But hang on, dbzer0 isn’t a very big instance. What happens if we do a ratio of bans vs number of users?

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Ok, so lemmy.ml, dbzer0 and pawb are issue an outsized amount of bans for the number of users they have… But surely the number of communities the instance hosts is going to mean they have to ban more? Bans are used to moderate communities, not just to shield their user-base from the outside. Let’s look at the number of bans per community hosted:

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Seems like dbzer0 really loves to ban. Even more than the marxists and the furries! What is it about dbzer0 that makes them such prolific banners?

Raw-ish numbers and calculations are in this spreadsheet if anyone wants to make their own charts.

    • a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.ca
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      4 hours ago

      This is a very ignorant comment. Consciousness is legitimately the greatest unsolved problem in modern science and philosophy.

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        Not really. It’s an emergent property of our biological processes. It’s not some nebulous thing like you and grail seem to think. Everything that lives is self aware and has some degree of consciousness. Without mimicking any of the biological processes and functions that living things have there can be no functional consciousness that’s close enough to our understanding of consciousness to be relevant. You both sound like high schoolers that got high for the first time and had their very first deep thoughts that weren’t actually deep, just really really stupid.

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      You’re seriously saying you’ve solved the hard problem of consciousness, which has stumped philosophers and neuroscientists for thousands of years? You know how the brain creates consciousness?

      Well then where’s your nobel prize, Einstein?

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        Holy shit seriously? Now you’re trying to bring philosophical rhetoric into a practical discussion? Go to fucking college kid. Jesus Christ you desperately need to learn how to learn. And yes, we know pretty well that consciousness is an emergent property of the sum total of our biological processes. It also may be entirely made up as a way our brains filter and process all the input of receives but that’s neither here nor there because I can’t wait to hear what’s next on your dip shit docket of misunderstanding.

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          16 hours ago

          You’re the one who claimed you know how the brain creates experiences and you’re absolutely certain we can’t replicate that process with computers. You seemed so sure, five minutes ago.

          It’s like hearing a kid say “I have absolutely no idea how a nuclear reactor functions, but I’m completely certain it has nothing to do with steam engines”

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            And fuckin hell there you go arguing with yourself again. Nobody said anything about being able to eventually replicate it with computers, it’s unlikely but maybe quantum computing could handle it, but regardless any existing tech in the AI space absolutely fucking without any shade of doubt is not remotely close to that. Like fucking at all. And steam turbines don’t have shit to do with the reactor itself, they’re for generating power from the reactor, that’s a stupid attempt at a gotcha and you just keep proving I’m dealing with someone with only primary education at best.

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            16 hours ago

            No, that’s what you read because your reading comprehension matches your understanding of the other subjects we’ve discussed. Go to fucking school, Jesus Christ. Get a legitimate education instead of just making shit up in your head and assuming that’s correct.

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              You’re really bad at arguing, you just say “nuh uh” and berate Me for not agreeing with you. It’s like talking to a man from the 1950s.

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                For the umpteenth time, I’m not arguing, I’m telling you that you fundamentally do not understand any of the things you’re talking about. I do not need to rebut nonsensical bullshit.