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Particularly this reply: https://twitter.com/OsitaNwanevu/status/1087841319219802113 https://twitter.com/OsitaNwanevu/status/1087841319219802113 Which shows t

• weberc2 8y ago
  Ryan's tweet should be altogether ignored as the interesting conversation is here: https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1087912297001971712 https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/108791229700197171...
• dominotw 8y ago
  not really, manipulating it via human intervention, like he is claiming, makes it opposite of "driven by math". He wants no human intervention in both cases.
  • dbt00 8y ago
    An algorithm optimizes on something, that something is set by humans. Full stop. We've already seen naive "content-neutral" engagement-preference algorithms fail spectacularly (russian propaganda on facebook, elsagate on youtube, etc). The more naive the algorithm, the easier it is for outsiders to manipulate by gaming inputs to the data stream.
  • untog 8y ago
    ...that's entirely the point. In one instance he is claiming it is manipulated by humans, in the next he is saying that it is math driven. He's changing his description of how algorithms work depending on the situation.