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What do you think about confirmation bias, and enabling it even further?
by minsc_and_boo 4y ago
What do you think about confirmation bias, and enabling it even further?
- sp332 4y agoI think it can't be solved by a search engine. If you search for conspiracy junk that's what will be surfaced. Attempts to correct for this will just introduce other biases until the search engine maker likes what they see. Introducing contrary content into search results will annoy users, and also surface fringe junk more frequently. A search engine is bias. If you wanted unbiased results, you would sort the results randomly. Maybe even return random URLs without regard for what was in the search query.
- smsm42 4y agoIt's a personal responsibility of each person to deal with their confirmation bias. You can't outsource it to a bunch of underpaid overworked subcontractors, even if they are called "fact checkers" or "moderation team" by their employers at Facebook or Google. The way to reduce the consequences of bad thinking patterns is not to censor more and force-feed people the "approved truth". It's to educate more and to earn people's trust by telling them the truth. It's not easy and it's not a guarantee of success. But it's the only way that can actually improve anything, as opposed to just creating more and more people that can't even talk to each other.
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