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2/ Infovores argue that information overload just means you pick what you consume. Not true. Most also want the results to make *sense*
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3/ Filter-failure-ists argue that you can overcome IO with better filters (social or software) also not true. Filtering doesn't create sense
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5/ Real issue: our brains are completion engines. We are wired to complete incomplete pictures. We're addicted to such completion.
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6/ But IO represents a condition of *overdetermined* realities. You are seeing data that represent 200% rather than 20% coverage of facts.
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8/ Those who are strong at being data-driven are actually hit hardest, since they find many *more* clever ways to overfit data.
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9/ Overfitting overdetermined reality = compounded noise = IO = Sense of mounting chaos. Anxiety provoking to all, paralyzing to data-driven
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