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Isn't that the very case behind the "wisdom of crowds" thing?
by coldtea 2y ago
Isn't that the very case behind the "wisdom of crowds" thing?
- amelius 2y agoLooking at the current state of democracies around the world, my hopes are not on "wisdom of the crowds".
- bee_rider 2y agoIf you think the democracies are doing bad, you should see the autocracies!
- amelius 2y agoYou mean the thing democracies are turning into, thanks to social (crowd wisdom) media?
- bee_rider 2y agoI don’t think social media really is crowd wisdom at all. It is built to pander to our worst impulses (I think, knowingly and openly, right? The algorithm selects for engagement, not learning and growing), and I’d be surprised if it isn’t producing a feedback loop as well (perhaps as an unintentional side effect). The wisdom of the crowds hypothesis relies on a random sampling, we’re intentionally applying a skew toward the angry and shallow.
- coldtea 2y agoNo, he means the thing democracies had turned to, when hardly differentiating parties turned into a practocal "uniparty" in economic, corporate, and foreign policy, and ruled by pissing on what the people voted for, which the current populist backlash is a reaction against, as elites (and supporters) lament as "too much democracy" and scorn the ignorant plebes (case in point) and pine for censorship and "expert" rule.
- bee_rider 2y agoThat wasn’t what I meant and I don’t think you really thought it was.
- coldtea 2y agoTheir current states were achieved by trusting technocrats and careeer politicians for far too long...