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Re:‘Contextualization Engines’ can fight misinformation with... by lindy2021 on Monday April 26, 2021 @04:24PM (#26947596)
The real test of a fair system is to build your "contextualization engine" and then hand it over to your ideological enemies to run.
Re:‘Contextualization Engines’ can fight misinformation with... by cortesoft on Monday April 26, 2021 @11:35PM (#26951699)
This is the foundation of a lot of John Rawls’ philosophy... he calls it the ‘original position’ or the ‘veil of ignorance’... the idea is to try to imagine, when thinking about social systems, that you have no idea which person you will be in that system. You might be the richest person or the poorest person, you might have your side in power or your opponents side in power.

If you had no idea who is filling what role, would you agree to the system proposed?

Re:‘Contextualization Engines’ can fight misinformation with... by croon on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @04:32AM (#26953463)
What if you are trying to build a system you would be willing to fill any role in, but your opponent knows the current one is very lopsided and they already have a favorable role?
Re:‘Contextualization Engines’ can fight misinformation with... by max-ibel on Monday April 26, 2021 @04:34PM (#26947728)
I cut -- you choose ?

I like it ;) But it will probably never happen.

Re:‘Contextualization Engines’ can fight misinformation with... by MayeulC on Monday April 26, 2021 @05:48PM (#26948652)
Would you hand the wheel over to your enemies? Agriculture? Writing?

Probably not, if they are assured to remain your enemies. Wars have almost always been decided on technological capabilities alone, with a few counter-examples. You asked an interesting question, if only a bit narrow.

Going further, most technologies can be directly used for ill.