Re:“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction”
by wizzwizz4 on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @10:26AM
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Which means people best able to play people to increase the "this post is good" score of the AI will sway the election results. It's not enough to control them, but I'd imagine you can tip a close election by 10% or so.
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Re:“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction”
by Consultant32452 on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @10:41AM
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Dr. Robert Epstein has done some research on this and has testified before Congress about it. Here's one article. https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-google-search-bia...
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Re:“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction”
by throwaway3699 on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @11:50AM
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Not reality, but definitely the media we consume. It's no wonder those Search results skew left when most news articles do too.
Re:“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction”
by bordercases on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @11:44AM
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"Objective absolute indifferent thing, has bias towards patchy intersubjective historically situated thing" sounds a lot less catchy when you unpack it.
Re:“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction”
by wizzwizz4 on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @02:57PM
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It's a joke. Mainstream right-wing socioeconomic theories are falsified by reality more often than mainstream left-wing socioeconomic theories. (Of course, left-wing v.s. right-wing is a bad way to judge a socioeconomic theory; better to check whether it's right.)