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What do people expect? Isn’t this uncharted territory for everyone? Everyone can report, but the public sphere where this happens is owned by a company which

What do people expect? Isn’t this uncharted territory for everyone? Everyone can report, but the public sphere where this happens is owned by a company which needs profit. Humanity was always insulated from what the worst that happened at that minute by the difficulty of transmitting information over older mediums. This means incentives are not aligned here - speaking the truth, keeping you engaged, and keeping Disney land clean. A person in the UK who wakes up in the morning doesn’t want to see evidence that South American violence has resulted in an entire village being eradicated. As a species We were insulated from thinking at species scale. We could do village and perhaps nation scale on and average human basis. A rare few people can think at a planetary or greater scale regularly. So how precisely should this be structured ?

psychoslave 8y ago
That's an interesting point regarding human cognition limits. Thanks to this comment I found Capacity limits of informationprocessing in the brain, by René Marois and Jason Ivanoff[1]. Intuitively I would think the gap of organizational difficulty between a village and nation be far more important than the one between a nation and the whole mankind. I mean that I would expect, a national organizational process to require far more logistic sophistication and far many more explicitly reproducible/scalable processes than what you need in a village. Of course, some of these processes can be argued as directly conflicting with a "mankind scale mindset", but it doesn't really seems to make a greater gap than one that isolate a mind in a smaller human scale. [1] http://www.psy.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/marois/Publications/Marois_Ivanoff-2005.pdf http://www.psy.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/marois/Publications/Ma...
naasking 8y ago
Excellent point. Arguably content targeting should consider geographic location (and it probably does to some extent). If we have to start categorizing content so we can preserve journalism with objectionable content, geographic scoring should get boosted even more.
marcosdumay 8y ago
That should be the top comment on this thread. > A person in the UK who wakes up in the morning doesn’t want to see evidence that South American violence has resulted in an entire village being eradicated. And really, why should they? It's not like they can do anything over the issue. They can get the abstract news and go live their lives. Yet, it's extremely important that some people get the evidence, and those are specific people, but distributed geographically and culturally so that I have no idea how to identify them.

psychoslave 8y ago

That's an interesting point regarding human cognition limits. Thanks to this comment I found Capacity limits of informationprocessing in the brain, by René Marois and Jason Ivanoff[1]. Intuitively I would think the gap of organizational difficulty between a village and nation be far more important than the one between a nation and the whole mankind. I mean that I would expect, a national organizational process to require far more logistic sophistication and far many more explicitly reproducible/scalable processes than what you need in a village. Of course, some of these processes can be argued as directly conflicting with a "mankind scale mindset", but it doesn't really seems to make a greater gap than one that isolate a mind in a smaller human scale. [1] http://www.psy.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/marois/Publications/Marois_Ivanoff-2005.pdf http://www.psy.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/marois/Publications/Ma...

naasking 8y ago

Excellent point. Arguably content targeting should consider geographic location (and it probably does to some extent). If we have to start categorizing content so we can preserve journalism with objectionable content, geographic scoring should get boosted even more.

marcosdumay 8y ago

That should be the top comment on this thread. > A person in the UK who wakes up in the morning doesn’t want to see evidence that South American violence has resulted in an entire village being eradicated. And really, why should they? It's not like they can do anything over the issue. They can get the abstract news and go live their lives. Yet, it's extremely important that some people get the evidence, and those are specific people, but distributed geographically and culturally so that I have no idea how to identify them.