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Re:Facebook’s Walled Wonderland Is Inherently Incompatible w... by lovich on Monday December 05, 2016 @01:51PM (#13108112)
I agree with your point that theres not really a solution anyones putting forth that prevents false positives, but I wouldn't agree that its entirely necessary.

You are never going to get a system that is 100% accurate so I feel it would be better to focus on being as accurate as possible. This would involve false positives and negatives to some degree. What degree that should be isn't apparent yet, but I don't think that 100% accuracy is realistic

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Re:Facebook’s Walled Wonderland Is Inherently Incompatible w... by yummyfajitas on Monday December 05, 2016 @03:02PM (#13108870)
I think that the costs of giving back control to the mainstream media drastically exceed the benefits of stopping some misinformation. I'd prefer the whole truth mixed with lies to a partial truth that is also mixed with lies (what we had before when the mainstream media controlled everything).
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Re:Facebook’s Walled Wonderland Is Inherently Incompatible w... by lovich on Monday December 05, 2016 @04:12PM (#13109639)
And that's an argument I can understand
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Re:Facebook’s Walled Wonderland Is Inherently Incompatible w... by nitrogen on Monday December 05, 2016 @02:43PM (#13108633)
The solution to imperfect binary true/false decisions is to stop making binary decisions, and instead provide a probability and confidence interval (dressed in non-mathematician-friendly UI), with several references to verifications or refutations.
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