Now let’s have some fun by considering what happens when we task some very smart engineers with creating a machine learning system capable of detecting and managing these basic network properties according to some set of content-related criterion...
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As difficult as it may seem in the short term, I think the only long-term solution is “voting with our feet”—if we don’t trust Twitter to “manage” our communication, we have to find or create some other platform we do trust. To spur competition around ideology & functionality.
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Yes, we are all lab rats in an experiment in large-scale social control. Despite this, despite our communication being manipulated by unseen forces & hidden agendas, it is still “good enough”, so we keep using it. We trade convenience against ideological purity.
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There exist different modes of transparency. I want the present government to regulate the large entities because ultimately, I want them to die. Without the increased drag of a meddling state, it seems unlikely their emergent competition stands a chance. A necessary evil.
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But if we can seed new modes of collective sensemaking in the private space, these may then be grafted back upon the domain of government to improve its capacity for global scale emergent sensemaking.
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