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> And yet none of the gun videos I watch are remotely political. Sure, but to assume that you _probably_ hold conservative beliefs due to having an interest in
by xienze 6y ago
> And yet none of the gun videos I watch are remotely political.
Sure, but to assume that you _probably_ hold conservative beliefs due to having an interest in guns is way more often the case than not. Same is true in an opposite way if you watched some video on abortion rights.
- zepto 6y ago“to assume that you _probably_ hold conservative beliefs due to having an interest in guns is way more often the case than not“ Only in the crudest statistical sense. For example the fastest growing demographic of gun owners is black women, who are overwhelmingly Democratic voters. And that’s exactly what the complaint about these algorithms is.
- freeone3000 6y agoThat these algorithms are crude statistical approximators of hidden latent biases in the training data? That's their entire method of functioning! That's the entire process of a neural network. It seems you're wanting something that can predict the future, which is currently outside of our matrix multiplication skills.
- zepto 6y agoI’m not ‘wanting’ something. I’m simply pointing out that the algorithms do in fact steer people towards polarizing content, that is not what they would have otherwise chosen.