I don't think that's a charitable interpretation of the point. What's the difference between e.g. a partisan newspaper pushing BS for clicks and an algorithm doing so?
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So no mechanism that sorts available options and floats some to the top can be viewed as a promotion system?
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Promotion is an agentic act. The pernicious sleight of hand underlying all these tech critiques is (deliberately) confusing 'X does not positively serve my ideology' with 'X serves an enemy ideology'.
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I think that's an interpretation of an interpretation. It may even be valid. But the question of "how does comparitively benign surfing generate these kinds of recommendation results" is, in itself, also valid.
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There's an Issue there, yes. I'm confident (based on other threads I don't have to hand) that ZT is a bad actor here and has nothing constructive to add, except as an example of the problem.
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I probably agree. But I don't think anyone's going to examine it dispassionately at this point. It's far too fraught, and the interrogation of social media is necessarily going to be about some kind of normative view of society.
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I don't grant people like her any more respect or inevitability than I granted Jerry Falwell.
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Falwell lost. Mary Whitehouse lost. But this kind of syrupy malice needs to be clearly identified.
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Personally, I think the author has just stumbled on, but not properly identified, an interesting phenomenon about domains of interest. I find that exploring just about any question or idiom or idea easily leads into strange and sometimes icky places.
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