Re:Google backtracks on search results design
by latexr on Sunday January 26, 2020 @09:04AM
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> People search for the truth
People search for whatever confirms their worldview.[1]
> while you can sell anybody anything, the truth will prevail.
Those ideas are at odds. If you “can sell anybody anything”, you can also sell them a lie. That keeps happening, so I see no basis for the argument that “the truth will prevail”.
People search for whatever confirms their worldview.[1]
> while you can sell anybody anything, the truth will prevail.
Those ideas are at odds. If you “can sell anybody anything”, you can also sell them a lie. That keeps happening, so I see no basis for the argument that “the truth will prevail”.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias