Silicon Valley rhetoric of “staged release” suggests it’s the algorithms that are powerful and dangerous. Completely false and disingenuous. It’s their monopolies on information that give them power. @matthewstollerhttps://twitter.com/j2blather/status/1125434175924912128 …
The question of the goals, means and stakeholders of the imminent regulation of social media is almost entirely separate from the question which research should be made publicly available. Pretending that this is the same question may appear politically expedient but is dangerous
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I can't quite parse your tweets here. Every biomedical company, hardware firm, etc runs on the patent system, where the methods are placed immediately into the public domain so that anyone can implement them. The idea that these algorithms are, in contrast, WMDs... just absurd!
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There is a bunch of biomedical and military weapons research that is not freely available in the public domain. The idea that some nontrivial algorithms could have such a deleterious effect on humanity that they should not be generally known does not strike me as a priori absurd.
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