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EarthLaunch | 1 year ago

> Tokens Don't Lie

> But how do people feel about these topics

I find it notable that tokens don't necessarily express people's feelings. Put another way, tokens aren't how people feel, they're how they write.

Samstave mentioned in this thread that Twitter is a 'global sentiment engine'. I'm sure that's literally true. Sentiment measurement is only accurate to the degree that people are expressing their real feelings via tokens. I can imagine various psychological and political reasons for a discrepancy.

If you did sentiment analysis of publicly known writings of North Korean administrators, would that represent their feelings?

I think the interplay with free speech is interesting here: In a setting where people feel socially and legally safe to express their true opinion, sentiment analysis will be more accurate.

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