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Except Amazon aren’t determining what is true for the world, they’re determining it for themselves based on their assessment of the evidence and control only th
by riwsky 6y ago
Except Amazon aren’t determining what is true for the world, they’re determining it for themselves based on their assessment of the evidence and control only their own actions? This is true of everyone. To impute a stupid decision-making algorithm to AWS and then point out that it’s stupid does not a great argument against AWS’ actual process make.
- Closi 6y agoExcept these companies are defining truth in the world. You said individuals make their own assessment based on the “evidence” - the problem here is that these companies serve up the “evidence”, so if these companies decide to only show you the “correct” evidence then that’s where they begin to define “truth”. For an example, see Google Maps and Crimea in Ukraine vs Russia.
- riwsky 6y agoThey certainly have a lot of sway, there—“history is written by the victors”, etc—but that we are having this discussion in the first place seems proof positive that said sway doesn’t prevent people from holding informed, contrary opinions.