Re:Avoid News: Towards a Healthy News Diet (2010) [pdf]
by prepend on Sunday November 03, 2019 @08:23AM
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This sounds like an AI whose value target is concise truth. In a perfect world, I would really like that feed.
I think the closest we got was in the late 90s Google was heading toward this with their “organize the world’s information and make it useful.” Then they pivoted to “organize the world’s information and make it useful to us to profit” and noticed that outrage makes more money than truth.
I think the closest we got was in the late 90s Google was heading toward this with their “organize the world’s information and make it useful.” Then they pivoted to “organize the world’s information and make it useful to us to profit” and noticed that outrage makes more money than truth.