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A comment on Facebook’s Secret Rulebook for Global Political Speech. Parent comment

Re:Facebook’s Secret Rulebook for Global Political Speech by nradov on Thursday December 27, 2018 @11:19PM (#18774858)
Classical liberal arts educations are tremendously valuable in teaching people how to think critically. However when we're dealing with complex emergent systems no one is capable of reliably predicting problems regardless of how much education in sociology and anthropology they have. Active monitoring and fast responses are the only viable approach.
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Re:Facebook’s Secret Rulebook for Global Political Speech by sunsetMurk on Friday December 28, 2018 @01:09AM (#18775132)
but what about seriously brainstorming some hypothetical scenarios as part of the process?

For example, documenting some sort of 'ideal' or 'pro/con' type lists of potential fallout. When architecting a system.. or in design/feature proposals.

Surely folks less in the weeds of technical requirements and actual implementation could help decide earlier on if something is 'good'.

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Re:Facebook’s Secret Rulebook for Global Political Speech by nradov on Friday December 28, 2018 @10:41AM (#18777335)
Brainstorming hypothetical scenarios usually results in endless discussions about imaginary problems that never come to pass, and completely missing the real problems. This tends to happen regardless of who participates.
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Re:Facebook’s Secret Rulebook for Global Political Speech by sunsetMurk on Saturday December 29, 2018 @05:34PM (#18786104)
agreed. ...I guess why not have people who're better at it or who'd rather spend time on it, do it? Would probably miss most of the real problems, but could catch a few and help steer complex issues. I guess I'm thinking about it as applying the type of mission that OpenAI has[1] on a wider/smaller scale.

1- https://openai.com/about/#mission

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Re:Facebook’s Secret Rulebook for Global Political Speech by nradov on Sunday December 30, 2018 @12:26AM (#18787596)
The OpenAI people mean well but their their concerns over safety seem a bit silly considering they haven't actually demonstrated any progress toward building a true AGI. At this stage it's the equivalent of worrying about the problems that would be caused by an alien invasion: an interesting intellectual exercise but useless in practical terms.
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