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> do _you_ have any ideas about how to fix this sort of thing that would survive being published for the world to see?

I would try to come up with a rule-based system that actually detects the bad behavior they don't want to have. Of course, people are then free to circumvent that system by not behaving badly.

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This is pretty much the equivalent of “I would try to make a rocket that just lands on Mars instead of crashing”. All I gotta do is make it take off instead of not taking off.

how to draw an owl: 1. draw some circles 2. draw the rest of the fucking owl

Indeed, if somebody wants to build a rocket that flies to Mars, then it should better not crash, and the equivalent to not crashing is an algorithm that actually detects the bad behavior. Kind of strange that you're making fun of that very basic requirement. The problem really is that Facebook's algorithms are like rockets that crash too often (~generate too many false positives) and their "solution" is to ignore the crash death toll for maximum cost cutting (~minimize human intervention).

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