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by aierou 5y ago
It's funny because Zuckerberg isn't even a public figure. I'm sure someone will make some ethical claim, but I've read all the articles and they are hardly conclusive. It's probably better to just wait for a regulat
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by aierou 5y ago
Apparently so is HN
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by aierou 5y ago
What, does public opinion shield you from the burden of proof? These are outrageous claims. I pray for legislation to put this all to rest.
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by aierou 5y ago
> Facebook ignored and hid the burden it puts on teenagers development Here, read the leaked document. Does it say what you said? https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Instagram-Te...
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by aierou 5y ago
Have you ever heard of AlphaFold? [0]: https://deepmind.com/blog/article/alphafold-a-solution-to-a-...
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by aierou 5y ago
This claim frustrates me in the same way as the claim that 'video games cause violence.'
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by aierou 5y ago
Thank you for this article. I was beginning to lose hope that there was anyone with a measured view on this issue.
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by aierou 5y ago
We are told again and again that correlation is not causation, but we readily ignore this maxim when we are looking for an account that we hope is true. At a time when Facebook is regularly vilified (sometimes deservedly), wanting to believ
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by aierou 5y ago
I really wish we would stop giving so much influence to popular opinion on social media. As of late, it is very undiscerning. Voting websites especially are terrible at selecting for true value at scale.
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by aierou 5y ago
Personally, I'm much more interested in technological advancement than paying mind to the plodding conservative narrative from media demagogues.
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by aierou 5y ago
Right. Just like we're currently living in a world where IBM controls all computers.
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by aierou 5y ago
Your own examples cover a broad range of social and political issues that even the savviest state governments struggle to navigate. How could anyone possibly moderate for such delicate and complex expectations? 100,000 moderators ? Perhaps
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by aierou 5y ago
Why is this article dated October 9th? Did they release it early to counter a slow news day?
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by aierou 5y ago
Let me put it this way: how would you go about measuring the harm that Facebook or any other social media company causes? With cigarettes, oxycontin, or weapons manufacturers, you can look directly at the physical harm they cause. We have s
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by aierou 5y ago
You just compared a social media company to a weapons manufacturer. Elsewhere, I see comparisons to cigarettes, oxycontin, gambling. It is easy to see how one might think Facebook to be evil if they are constantly bombarded with these false
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by aierou 5y ago
Okay, let's break up big tech. Now what? Do you really think people will stop using social media?
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by aierou 5y ago
The implication that HN is a primary source of knowledge is disturbing.
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by aierou 5y ago
What you are seeing is a major weakness of platforms like HN and Reddit. This weakness could very well cause more harm than Facebook, but studies or articles that point this out likely wouldn't receive exposure on the platforms they im
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by aierou 5y ago
I don't know about everyone else, but I get most of my hate, arguments, misinformation, angry, and harmful messaging from HN and Reddit. RE: downvotes I understand my comment is low effort, but so is the parent comment. I would be more
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by aierou 5y ago
Right. However, it is my understanding that these glasses in their current form do not stream or publish data to Facebook, and I have no reason to suspect that future AR glasses would do that either. Technology has no inherent morality, and
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by aierou 5y ago
Sorry, yes, that is poorly worded on my part. I meant to say that there is a class of privacy discussion that essentially did not exist prior to the widespread adoption of social media.
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by aierou 5y ago
If these were AR glasses first, would we have accepted the cameras as a necessary evil? If that is the case, then the concern seems superficial.
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by aierou 5y ago
Aren't all recorded breaches of trust (outside of admittedly predatory data collection schemes endemic to the software industry) the result of unprecedented attacks on social networks as a construct? How would one anticipate such attac
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by aierou 5y ago
From my position, the mobile app shenanigans look like little more than intracompany politics. Where Facebook is not getting data, Apple or Google are still happily collecting. Overall, I would guess that there is no track record of trust b
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by aierou 5y ago
I don't mean to go too much against the narrative in this thread, but aren't cameras on glasses necessary to achieve AR? Are people concerned about these glasses just because it's Facebook, or is there broader opposition to A
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by aierou 5y ago
Isn't it at least part of the problem that data laws/regulations remain fuzzy and complex? I don't think it's surprising to see that companies don't fully comply with a law that was created in 2016.
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by aierou 5y ago
Unfortunately it doesn't filter out the mindless consumption. A curated front page can help, but even that has become less and less effective in my experience.
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by aierou 5y ago
I think it's important to recognize that Reset Australia is a traditional media lobby group, and that this report amounts to a zero-day attack on Facebook's automated advertising system. Facebook would never choose to advertise th
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by aierou 5y ago
It seems that the term "shadow profile" refers to a feature where Facebook retains contact information uploaded by other users in order to recommend them as friends if/when you create a profile [1]. For all the fear associate