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Comment on Reddit announces new limits on moderating large subreddits and for moderators to remove content sitewide in ~tech
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Comment on A Domain-Specific Architecture for Deep Neural Networks in ~comp
PennyOaken Link"Compared to CPUs and GPUs, the single-threaded TPU has none of the sophisticated microarchitectural features that consume transistors and energy to improve the average case, but not the 99th..."Compared to CPUs and GPUs, the single-threaded TPU has none of the sophisticated microarchitectural features that consume transistors and energy to improve the average case, but not the 99th percentile case; that is, there are no caches, branch prediction, out-of-order execution, multiprocessing, speculative prefetching, address coalescing, multithreading, context switching, and so forth. Minimalism is a virtue of domain-specific processors."
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I think that one major reason Reddit is willing to “reshape boundaries” this way is because they have ramped up their own anti-spam efforts, but also, critically: when user-level moderators inadvertently tip off spammers, the spam rings change tactics.
There’s a good faith desire by moderators to combat spam, and five or six years ago the moderators were doing almost all of the effective combat of spam. We had to do it because the admins left it up to outdated algorithms, or just user reports.
Now, however, it absolutely needs the kind of analysis only admins have the data to do, and I’ve suspected that a lot of their motive has been to gently shift moderators out of that domain, to better maintain fighting entire spammer rings sitewide.
We never should have needed to be volunteer sitewide Trust & Safety. Now we don’t need to be, but it’s a hard habit to break.