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Right, but showing all posts in chronological order is a "content recommendation" algorithm. Is that amplifying problems too?

• micromacrofoot 4y ago
  This seems like pedantry with no purpose, if my boss asked me to create an algorithm that recommended content I'm certain that they would absolutely not mean a list of chronologically ordered content. Do I really need to specificity that I'm talking about algorithms that recommend content using algorithmically presumed user interests based on aggregated behavior data?
  • bagels 4y ago
    So, recommending content in any of all possible ways is harmful? Or are there some ways that are not harmful (eg filtering out things relating to suicide)? It's not pedantry without purpose. The logical conclusion to algorithms are bad is the outlawing of all social media and news sites.
    • micromacrofoot 4y ago
      then we start getting into who gets to be the proprietary arbiter of ok and not ok content, which frankly is probably even worse - china tweaking an algorithm to depress american productivity isn’t so far fetched when you consider what facebook has knowingly done to its own users