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That‘s an interesting position. I have recently watched an interview with Yuval Noah Harari and Steven Pinker where they talked about the possibility and danger
by ace_of_spades 7y ago
That‘s an interesting position. I have recently watched an interview with Yuval Noah Harari and Steven Pinker where they talked about the possibility and danger of algorithms becoming better at understanding us than we do ourselves. It‘s a real danger as the bar to trick humans into believing and doing things is incredibly low.
As an example take a magician who can trick you into believing things which are not true simply by being clever about how certain things are framed. Another example are experimental set ups in which false memories were reliably induced (just google it).
I am not taking a strong position in the case of twitter here, but I want to highlight that your premise: „I don‘t need someone to protect me from its content“, might be a little bit naive or overconfident in your own ability to „see the truth“. We are limited in what we can make sense of and we are easily manipulable. Mindfulness, self-awareness and self-reflection might be able to raise the bar a little bit but in the end, I wouldn‘t even trust too much in that. I am still often enough fooled by a magic trick even when I KNOW how the trick works.