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by ve55 6y ago
I think I'd best say it as two parts, the first part is that the algorithms behind social media content are not known to us as end-users, which seems a bit unfair given that they control the entire world around us. The second is that t
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by ve55 6y ago
Not attempting to argue against democracy, but that the algorithms that control what news and items we see are very important, and they are not even open-source! They could take many different forms, some that don't promote outrage as
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by ve55 6y ago
>there is suffering that would be invisible to the world if it weren't for social media. Definitely, but the algorithms for social media do not help the worst cases of the most suffering become more viral than more infrequent cases
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by ve55 6y ago
It definitely took me quite a few lessons to have a good idea what I was doing there myself. Skin in the game is definitely important, and has become increasingly less common in society, to the detriment of many systems.
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by ve55 6y ago
I view this as the primary reason that protests and rioting have been significantly more widespread recently. In order for someone to feel good about protesting and rioting, it helps if people around them are doing it, so that it seems soci
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by ve55 6y ago
This reminds me a lot of pain related to finance and gambling losses, underwent by someone being much riskier than they should have been. You can tell someone about the risks of gambling or very-high risk investing, but in my experience the
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by ve55 6y ago
Yup, and of course there's also FinCEN, the IRS, the BSA which includes reporting of currency transactions, suspicious transactions, FBAR where you have to disclose all foreign holdings, and many other reports. I think similar regulati
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by ve55 6y ago
It is worth remember that the current state of finance is already surveillance finance. Credit card records are sold and purchased, all large chains and stores do significant customer tracking on their own, more than just every item you pur
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Culture-Bound Syndrome(en.wikipedia.org)
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Fact-Checking Is Not Easy(nearcyan.com)
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by ve55 6y ago
Great response, thanks. The US is definitely a more difficult environment to prove that their privacy violations are not just violations of privacy, but also of law. I wonder if these wiretapping laws are really the best route to go about a
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by ve55 6y ago
“We strongly dispute these claims and we will defend ourselves vigorously against them,” Castaneda said in an email. I wonder what it is they actually dispute, when the claims are so basic? Most popular websites use GA, so of course Google
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by ve55 6y ago
I think it's a mistake to assume that anyone who doesn't want to fact-check/remove Trump's posts has to lean right politically. There's a lot of other reasons they can have. What if all of Trump's worst posts w
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by ve55 6y ago
It's unfortunate, but I've seen it happen a lot at companies like this, from what I've spoken about privately. The worst part is those I speak to have very modest views, good intentions, and have put thought into it. But they
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by ve55 6y ago
I don't think he's necessarily taking the best ethical option at every turn, just that he's playing a long-term game, even if what he is optimizing for is Facebook's success, not purely ethics. It's clear he and Fac
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by ve55 6y ago
Although some may think the reason why Mark Zuckerberg has come out against fact-checking politicians is so that he can reap profits and sow division while cackling maniacally, I think instead he has simply put a lot of thought into the pro
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by ve55 6y ago
Zuckerberg realizes that large corporations should not be arbiters of truth, because it cannot be fair, and it cannot work long-term, in my opinion. Even if one decides certain types of incorrect content should be removed, he realizes there
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by ve55 6y ago
"Facebook employees are beginning to revolt" is not an acceptable title for a company of 50,000 when what you're really discussing is a small amount of employees speaking out, as well as expressing your own disagreement. It&#
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by ve55 6y ago
Some great tips and solutions to help a web where most popular websites are plagued with JavaScript from as many as 10-30+ external websites. Of course, many of those are profitable, but there's still technical room for improvement ind
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by ve55 6y ago
Not quite the implication I intended, but when you own something like Google Analytics, you don't need to see everyone's DNS queries, because you have much, much more.
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by ve55 6y ago
That's a good point, and we can already see sizeable portions of normal users that voice concerns about Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, etc. But how many of these users would really be willing (and able) to pay $100/year? I worry that
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by ve55 6y ago
I see the largest problem as that you're basically competing with the social networking giants, and without a profit model or some other significant source of funds, how can you expect to take enough of their users to garner your own n
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by ve55 6y ago
The difficulty with the blogging ecosystem is the same challenge that many others face, which is that some very large companies don't want you to have your own blog when you could instead be producing content to make (Twitter, Medium,
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by ve55 6y ago
As far as I have noticed, only time Google makes something 'more private for everyone' historically, has been when they themselves have found a superior way to get around it. Whether this is because the entire Internet uses Google
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by ve55 6y ago
These laws are often not thought through to that extent. And especially not thought through for the very-long term, e.g. what effect removing potentially-offending speech may have on societies across decades
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by ve55 6y ago
I'm not necessarily trying to say this is better or worse than major media networks, but one issue is that it does appear to offer a greater illusion of 'this is what the people are actually saying'.
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by ve55 6y ago
The craziest thing about this isn't just that so many people are controlling the literal news feeds to millions of others, but that they can do so while being anonymous, were not chosen or elected in any reasonable way, have zero accou
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by ve55 6y ago
Why will market forces keep prices high? Generally, over time, the opposite occurs. Many new technologies may start out expensive, but I don't see why we should eschew the entire field just because some people will be able to purchas
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by ve55 6y ago
Is there a reason why people over a specific net worth should be singled out here, and then somehow used as to imply that anti-aging treatments are a net negative? What about just "helping older people alleviate the painful symptoms of
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by ve55 6y ago
As much as these things are very speculative, that is the necessary direction that we have to go in in order to maximize the chance of actually finding and then using these breakthroughs. The only way to actually make significant progress i

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