Also, what is the metric of measuring the ethical benefits of manipulating the mental states of social media users away from self-directed exploration? If it is about quality of life/reduction of suffering, should we not be shadowbanning/delisting any praise of unhealthy food?
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If the individual user has no agency over forming the correct beliefs when exposed to uncurated media sources, could we perhaps use machine learning to identify the delta of what a user thinks and what they should be thinking and play them the right feed to correct their beliefs?
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Twitter is already modeling whom you follow and who reads/likes your posts to detect if you are likely to hold unwelcome opinions, and curbs your influence by reducing how often your posts will show up in the feeds of your followers. Why not directly regulate belief formation?
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I think if you tie it to outcomes, sure it becomes problematic. However, I’ve come to the conclusion that lies are the speech analog of violence in the physical domain. What if it’s not about agendas, but instead lies?
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Why does a policy become more ethical if you don’t tie it to outcomes?
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I think at the very least we should prevent 12 year old boys from being exposed to concerted Nazi propaganda without being exposed to equal amounts of other views.
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I would also contest we should not allow non-internet savvy users to be exposed to things on basic sites to things that are known to be false and look legitimate to untrained eyes without the context of of their known falsehood and illegitimacy
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What kind of ideas and arguments do you suggest to be preferrably shown? Are there any criteria for choosing such ideas and arguments you are referring to or could you outline some?
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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How do you know that this is a consensus?
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It doesn't matter what happened or how it happened or why it happened, you are going to act on what you believe. And there are a lot of complicated layers to that simple observation.pic.twitter.com/bvXv8ARpsI
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