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xkcd #3116: Echo Chamber

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This is almost as bad as the time I signed up for a purely partisan fishing expedition.

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[–] ogmios@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

I saw a really interesting Ted Talk from a Google engineer waaaaaaay back in or before 2012 (I think), discussing the emerging danger of algorithms isolating people in echo chambers.

Apparently the problem we've got right now is not that people can't foresee these problems, but rather that those in charge, for whatever reason, are completely ignoring the warnings from their own engineers.

[–] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 44 points 1 week ago (5 children)

for whatever reason

Money. It's for money.

[–] ogmios@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Eh... everyone has different reasons, and I'm sure there's a healthy diversity of types involved in this shit.

[–] W_itjust_works@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] ogmios@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

0 - 1

Did... you downvote yourself?

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ive done it before by mistake tbf

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago

I've done it for money

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