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What you're proposing is a hack, and one with a lot of negative side effects. First of all, to go with the obvious, you better hope that what Google deems the
by ralusek 9y ago
What you're proposing is a hack, and one with a lot of negative side effects.
First of all, to go with the obvious, you better hope that what Google deems the direction they'd like to alter reality is aligned with your own, because I'm quite sure that this will mostly be untrue.
Secondly, you're attempting to patch a problem at much too high of a level; making people less racist by altering what they're able to ingest, particularly by altering unbiased reality, is a bandaid that is destined to fail hard. What if, say, we wanted to change the negative stereotype of black Americans engaging in criminal behavior at substantially higher rates, so we demanded that Google remove access to racially distributed crime statistics. Many countries already do this, such as Sweden. We will have lost a primary tool with which to assess the nature of our reality, contextualize it, and strategize about it effectively.
I'm more interested in a free society bettering reality than I am with hoping that Google's ideal version of reality is aligned with my own... particularly because I would still consider it to be a horrible solution even if it was.
- RangerScience 9y agoMaking people less racist by altering what they're ingesting is one of the most effective ways to do it. The "reality" in this case is not unbiased, because it's not the reality of "cars are hard" but the reality of "red means stop". > access to racially distributed crime statistics That does sound like something that would backfire or fail. Seems like you hit on the delineating factor: You search for crime statistics to contextualize and understand your reality. Is that why people search for porn?