Whole-known-network
<p>*VCVTTPD2UQQs ur ZMMs*</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> To be sure, that's why I emphasized from the second toot that I wished there were more resources available — I understand that reading, and I definitely don't intend to encourage more unpaid labor.</p><p>It's absolutely fucked up that the companies that do A/B testing don't give a shit about the ethical consequences of such, and the people who *do* give a shit don't have the resources to back that care up with aid from specialized expertise in ethical experiment design.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@xgranade" class="u-url mention">@<span>xgranade</span></a></span> mainly, I do think there's room to improve (like, kilometers of it) in how A/B testing is done, but the way it was presented more or less told me "great, another thing I have to do to satisfy an external gatekeeper while doing primarily unpaid labor" which doesn't spring enthusiasm for the underlying critique even if it maybe should</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> I mean, fair; I'm not sure I agree (indeed, or else I wouldn't have said what I did), but I definitely take the critique.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@xgranade" class="u-url mention">@<span>xgranade</span></a></span> I think you bring up at least some reasonable points but the way in which you frame them (or framed to me initially) seems about as non-constructive as it gets, to be honest</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> I do hope that's something that you don't find deranged, as you say; I value your opinion and expertise in general and on this stuff in particular. Whether you do find it deranged or not, though, that's more or less where I'm coming from?</p><p>I think tech as an industry (and yes, that includes my own time in such) has normalized a degree of nonconsentual experimentation that's now causing huge problems.</p>
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<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@xgranade" class="u-url mention">@<span>xgranade</span></a></span> I see</p>
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