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by glial 6y ago
Go for a walk.
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by glial 6y ago
Overleaf
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by glial 6y ago
Yeah, there’s a terrible conflict of interest between informing the public and selling advertising. There has been for a long time. It’s just worse now. We should figure out how to fix it rather than throw up our hands.
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by glial 6y ago
Sure, not every person is evil. You just need evil leaders and employees that need paychecks to be in a bad spot. The core problem is that they have two conflicting incentives. They don’t want to look bad for spreading misinformation so the
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by glial 6y ago
Banning ad-based news, or at least ad-funded social media. They only push garbage because it attracts eyeballs, which makes them money. Just like tabloids.
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by glial 6y ago
> Facebook and Twitter are taking what must be very careful, researched action Sorry but are we talking about the same companies? What track record do they have that helps you to believe this?
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by glial 6y ago
Yes, knowing how the world works and what one should do are very different. Knowing the dynamics of a system (how the world works - science) and defining an objective function (aka a desirable outcome) are totally separable, and it'd
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by glial 6y ago
> What concerns me is that science is ever changing “Science” is just a set of methods for finding out about the world. Scientific findings are our best-guess beliefs about the world. Those beliefs change as new evidence is uncovered. Wh
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by glial 6y ago
Privacy protections are great, but as long as there is an ad-based funding model, there will be incentive to circumvent them. You have to stop this at the source — by eliminating ad revenue.
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by glial 6y ago
IMO this is a fantastic use of this technology. The bandwidth is low enough to enable videoconferencing on a dial-up connection. I only wonder how big the model is - gigabytes I bet.
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by glial 6y ago
> instead of removing the missing data, we fill it in with what should most likely be there Just like the blind spot caused by your optic nerve!
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by glial 6y ago
> The big question I think should be how do we design this "good" bias into our social media Yeah, no thanks. Algorithms aren’t the solution to this particular problem.
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by glial 6y ago
[Citation needed.]
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by glial 6y ago
If you are intrigued in the argument but would like a less inflammatory author, check out “Tools For Conviviality” by Ivan Illich.
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by glial 6y ago
> the power efficiency of analogue circuitry is dramatically worse The human brain would like to have a word with you.
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by glial 6y ago
That’s not what I said.
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by glial 6y ago
Or at least, an agreement in the value of good faith discussion in pursuit of truth and mutual progress.
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by glial 6y ago
Yes, the last sentence in my comment was unnecessarily provocative and I should have left it out because it distracts from my larger point, about which I think we agree. Humans are not good at discerning truth on their own, and we need soci
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by glial 6y ago
'Balanced' is a red herring and useless in-and-of itself. Conversation should be a collaboration to find the truth, not a 'balanced' battle between two opponents. Bullshit on the internet doesn't further the goal o
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by glial 6y ago
It’s a fair point to say that causality is complicated. But COVID as a cause of death is like a match as a cause for a forest fire. It only has an effect in certain conditions, but when those conditions are in place, it is certainly to blam
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by glial 6y ago
Legitimacy matters.
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by glial 6y ago
How would you suggest they go about moderating content (assuming they should)? They currently have an army of human moderators who are emotionally scarred from seeing terrible images all day long - and of course, those images were public o
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by glial 6y ago
In my mind the problem isn't personalized ads per se, it's the incentive for Facebook to increase engagement -- which is shared by personalized and non-personalized ad revenue alike. I have the same issue with ad-driven news organ
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by glial 6y ago
Go ahead and spell it out - the destruction of civil society is worth the convenience Facebook offers.
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by glial 6y ago
You're implicitly arguing that Facebook should be a censor. Censoring at scale is a fool's errand. Change the incentive structure. Make Facebook operate by subscription, make timelines linear, etc. You'll never stop people fr
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by glial 6y ago
Personally I've been off of Facebook since 2008 but...don't hate the player, hate the game. Facebook makes big money serving ultra-targeted ads for their customers. But, it's not the only one: see Twitter, Google, etc. Penali
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by glial 6y ago
Absent a countervailing force, capital tends to accumulate. These results should be no surprise. So, what now?
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by glial 6y ago
Freedom comes with responsibility.
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by glial 6y ago
After all, they were just following orders.
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by glial 6y ago
> There's no easy way to articulate what should and shouldn't be allowed. Except for - businesses with users should operate through subscription revenue, rather than 3rd party ad revenue.

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