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this got me curious and i found this post about this: http://www.unz.com/isteve/great-moments-in-google-american-inventors/ http://www.unz.com/isteve/great-mome

• closetohome 8y ago
  You found an alt-right blog complaining about a glitch in an algorithm that accidentally promoted afraican americans? Shocking.
  • DuskStar 8y ago
    In all seriousness, are we not allowed to complain about glitches now, particularly if the glitch means 'increased diversity'?
    • lotu 8y ago
      It is called understanding context. This isn’t a thread about weird tech glitches it is a thread about Donald Trump accusing Google of liberal bias; something that apprentlly involves showing more black people than neccassary in search results. If you lay out the game theory brining this up in this context you are implying that this is part of some vast liberal conspiracy. That is the problem.
      • DuskStar 8y ago
        Well, that's a slightly different question. If the article is on Trump claiming that Google politically biases search results, Google having a history of returning suboptimal results in a way that is "stereotypically liberal" would be some decent supporting evidence - someone having done something before increases the prior probability of them having done so again. If that's actually accurate, of course. Now, it seems pretty clear to me that this was a bug (and one I see in other, non-political search results) and that lowers the credibility of the criticism. I'd still rather have both sides make their strongest arguments though, and that includes pointing out prior occurrences that might suggest a pattern.
  • brianbreslin 8y ago
    oh I wasn't endorsing it. Just pointing out that someone else had already written about this key point.