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If the algorithm distorts conversation, then how can you be sure it more accurately reflects human nature? How does something that isn't a marketplace of ideas
by readflaggedcomm 5y ago
If the algorithm distorts conversation, then how can you be sure it more accurately reflects human nature?
How does something that isn't a marketplace of ideas prove it's dumb? Or should this question be punished by your algorithm?
- notahacker 5y agoThe main agenda the algorithm has is selecting stuff human nature has a high propensity to click on...
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- throwaway316943 5y agoAlternatively, it simply makes it easier to click on the presented content than to purposely seek out other content. Front pages and headlines dominate media for a reason.
- acituan 5y agoKind of like drug cartels having the agenda of producing drugs that human nature has a high propensity to be drawn to? In the face of hyperstimuli, we can't talk about mere human propensities as a justification, else we would have already turned ourselves into junkies many times over. How many years did it take for heroin go from a cough medicine to a schedule I drug? Amphetamines, cigarettes etc. There is a reason you can't put simply everything on the marketplace, and that is OK. That doesn't mean the idea of a marketplace is broken.
- readflaggedcomm 5y agoThat's an assumption which critics of these algorithms would disagree with.