#positive feedback loop

[tonycries]

what do you think about super sensitive reader who moves/twitches a lot

i read a work and my first thought was “they would probably move and ruin their own orgasm i fear”

Oh the way Gojo would have an absolute FIELD DAY with this 👀 Imagine his cursed energy flickering everywhere...making you flinch n' gasp and that only makes him NEEDIER which has his power going out of control again oh...

[mywordstovictor]

I posit this theory on why some cis folks end up with disproportionately trans friends:

Positive feedback loop.

Cis person is chill about trans people -> trans people notice, feel at ease, friendship ensues. -> Cis person learns community vocabulary, is at ease (past the "what if I say something like offensive" phase) -> trans people notice that this cis person is comfortable talking about trans issues and talks about us how we talk about ourselves, there’s no awkwardness with them, we might even identify that they’re someone who spends time with trans people often, befriending ensues. ->

The more trans people this person puts at ease, the more trans friends they end up with, the more perspectives they encounter, the more they learn how to be a good friend and ally.

TLDR: Cis people who make trans friends learn to be better friends to trans people and it snowballs.

[theearthforce]

An interesting cycle I've noticed in healing:

When you begin healing the past and releasing old trauma, the future starts to feel more hopeful.

And when the future feels hopeful again, letting go of the past becomes easier.

[iamafanofcartoons]

The Positive Feedback Loop, and why it is the Bane of Youtube Users dealing with unnecessary Recommendations

The reason Youtube is bad: positive feedback loops. not positive as in good, but positive as in they grow larger over time. Youtube's recommendation algorithm is partially based off of what it learns from users.

It takes in all kinds of data on what users watch--the uploader, the title, the tags, the thumbnail, the description, anything it can glean from the audio and visuals, whatever. you name it, google's probably holding it. They dont have yottabytes upon yottabytes of data for nothing. Importantly, though, is that they also keep track of what the user watches Next. 

See, google (as with most social media that uses an ad revenue model) will run studies, where they try out different experimental algorithms created from viewership data on different users and see what is more likely to get users to click through. How they create these experiments is pretty complicated, and i'll save you the technogore. Think of it as making tons of algorithms that each think different combinations of aforementioned viewership data at different amounts are the reason why that viewer made their choice, then projecting that onto all users to inform future suggestions. 

Trust me, that's the easy way to think about it. What makes it a positive feedback loop? Well, recall that i said the algorithms are created on viewership data. The successful one(s) is/are then used to inform future recommendations. That data is then used to further experimentally tweak the algorithm. The choices user make influence the algorithm. What influences the choices users make? The algorithm. As time moves on, the algorithm becomes more and more biased until youtube decides to make more dramatic changes to influence things in a different direction (remember the change to favor runtime? Then to favor watch-through?) And here lies the biggest problem. Youtube isn't fixing shit about this system.  Why would they? People are clicking through recommendations at insane rates! They're watching more videos! And sure, a general societal right-wing bias might have positive feedback looped into turning the website into a facism pipeline, but google is making so much fucking money from gathering an insane amount of information from users that can be used in ad targeting the whole time. Even if youtube itself struggles with profitability, even if people like. kind of say stuff about the problem but never really do anything about it at a large scale, even if people are being red-pilled, Why should google care when they make more money than anyone could even comprehend? Until capitalism is overthrown, there will be a shit algorithm. Blocking channels is a start, but there will always be more shitty things to block Apps that bypass youtube accounts and privacy loss (youtube vanced and newpipe and blocktube and channel blocker) Are privacy tools first, kind of hit or miss when it comes to the algorithm.

Never looked into the source code of them, but, if you ask me, it's either some amalgamation of everyone's recommendations who use those apps, a "default" algorithm, or one that's kind of tailored to you as youtube slowly worms its way into identifying you by your device and ip address. Point is, dont hold your breath waiting. Keep looking for tools, keep spreading the word, keep finding ways to support content you like so the artist isnt reliant on ad revenue.

[mmorpg-escapism]

Wait, hold on, I've found a positive feedback loop.

Write story -> Find moment where a picture helps -> do a gpose thing -> love the results -> want to gpose more -> write more to reach more picture moments

Related, I've edited Chapter 1's post and put two fun shots in there. I'll *try* to limit myself to 3 per chapter but who knows what'll happen.

[currentclimate]

Just Stopping Emissions May No Longer Be Enough to Stop Global Warming

Researchers argue that it’s time to invest in aggressive carbon capture

But according to a new modeling study published in Scientific Reports today, even if we made such drastic reductions permanent, it would still not be enough. The study suggests that if we stopped all human-made greenhouse gas emissions immediately, the Earth’s temperatures would continue to rise because of self-sustaining melting ice and permafrost. These “feedback loops” — in which melting ice causes less sunlight to be reflected back into space, which in turn raises temperatures and causes more ice melt — have already been set into motion, the researchers argue.

[snarkyhag]

ckerouac replied to your post “SJW friends, Any suggestions for (lesser known and) awesome charities...”

do you have any areas of interest you want these orgs focused in?

Great question.  I should have specified.  I am looking for progressive orgs to support in any of these categories:

justice/legal services

environmental protection/climate justice

immigration (such as RAICES)

heath care (including reproductive health)

lgbtqa+

education/access to education

international humanitarian crises

local groups that works with at promise youth

[findepartida]

Who is one when one calls oneself one? An orchestra dies down.

Jorie Graham, Sea Change, “Positive feedback loop (June 2007)“