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-- Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism"
> Apart from my tech criticism, what I notice about reading those links is the very detached, indifferent, irresponsible, even COLD attitude from everybody involved in cheering on this experimental AI algorithm -- from the Google research authors, the Tubefilter authors and commenters there and in the Y Combinator discussion. While a few people complain about their music choices or political videos, or how they can make money from the new algorithm -- most of them don’t think ahead about consequences, or about other people at all. They should have just kept their experiment in the laboratory.
> Nobody discussed how the gimmicky algorithm would affect real people or ruin cultures around the world. Nobody there, in all seriousness, “thought of the children”. Now we, here, are discussing and solving THEIR industrial fallout, like factory pollution spread over a community. This is why James Bridle’s timely article was so essential to identify “infrastructural violence being done to all of us, all of the time, and we’re still struggling to find a way to even talk about it, to describe its mechanisms and its actions and its effects”.
> In my opinion, the negligent people who gave the green light to this untested algorithm or cheered it on are, in fact, responsible accomplices to infrastructural violence. And the violence is real. Their "Frankenstein AI" foolishly recommended toxic movies that harmed millions of children (and adults). The AI cheerleaders felt no hesitation to exert control over what billions of people watch and think, in a very sneaky way -- while allowing greedy marketers to manipulate their choices to make ad money, and allowing sinister pervs to groom the children watching those badly recommended movies.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ElsaGate/comments/7ebw14/reverse_engineering_the_youtube_algorithm/dq3v7jp/
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It can be fixed in CSS. Add scrollbars to on small viewports, or have it wrap on small viewports. Opera Mini could do magic with forcing text to wrap on small displays, why are mob…
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Define "success".
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Maybe that would make it okay to do it to you, but even then it doesn't justify it being done to anyone but you.
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Yet it's an American website where the discussion of such serious things is censored, too.
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You're simply demonstrating the simplification he's criticizing, without offering any worthwhile criticism.
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> Well, I think here you point out to one, really, of the basic defects of our system: that the individual citizen has very little possibility of having any influence - of making h…
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