"Why do these ostensibly social systems make social life harder?" with insight on algorithms and norms. themanual.org/read/issues/5/
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I have a lot of thoughts about this, but I think my criticism boils down to:
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Effective communication needs mutual understanding. Current ML systems can neither understand nor be understood.
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When you act disengaged from your uncle's political ramblings, you both understand what that means…
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Do you understand what it means to Facebook to click on a picture or scroll quickly past a post?
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This is a good point! Reminds me of nxhx.org/maximizing. Not sure how complex uncle-understanding really is, though.
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I've a thread going w/ a deepmind person about this. Seems ML algos need to give reasons like humans can.
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