Re:Roger McNamee: I invested early in Google and Facebook an...
by emmab on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @06:13PM
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> Like gambling, nicotine, alcohol or heroin, Facebook and Google — most importantly through its YouTube subsidiary — produce short-term happiness with serious negative consequences in the long term
How could the system incentivize companies like Facebook and Google to use prosocial utility functions in their recommendation engines?
e.g. a video recommendation engine that on default settings suggests videos it thinks will cause the viewer to feel satisfied and change activities if it thinks it will improve their overall wellbeing to stop watching videos now.
How could the system incentivize companies like Facebook and Google to use prosocial utility functions in their recommendation engines?
e.g. a video recommendation engine that on default settings suggests videos it thinks will cause the viewer to feel satisfied and change activities if it thinks it will improve their overall wellbeing to stop watching videos now.