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Suppose humans are biologically disadvantaged in an arena of information abundance. Suppose it turns out we are hopelessly vulnerable. Suppose it turns out desi
by DSingularity 6y ago
Suppose humans are biologically disadvantaged in an arena of information abundance. Suppose it turns out we are hopelessly vulnerable. Suppose it turns out desires and our biases our meta-cognitive processes leaving us wide open to being exploited by ruthless actors driven by hidden agendas.
What now?
- Applejinx 6y agoSounds like obesity in Western societies (oh sll right, America). Seems like if you make food with massive amounts of salt and sugar balanced to mask each other in the recipe you can trick humans into overconsuming it, insatiably, until they die. Sounds like it's the same with information.
- DSingularity 6y agoYet we still have subject-matter experts — here on HN and elsewhere (professors of CS I’m looking at you) — who condone and even defend this.
- haffi112 6y agoI still think it is not Facebook's responsibility to decide the best way to filter information for people because their incentive is to keep people on their platform. Those incentives do not necessarily align with providing unbiased opinions and views. Therefore, there should be rules dictating what is allowed and what is not. Facebook or a commercial entity should not decide these rules.