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Re: Advances in NLP to better connect people

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Facebook has a great AI and apparently also NLP team , a great framework , and tons of resources. They should make a search engine.

They're already modern version of web directory with millions of contributors so they probably just need to organise it. Or they already did it ? Did they ?

Re: Advances in NLP to better connect people

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Facebook should probably wait for a few years until it does it. Currently it is the main traffic driver for “news” outlets and they will likely try to discredit the search engine.

Someone else will do it by then. Also, i dont think so - facebook has been better at giving traffic to other sites - unlike google they dont usually scrape and rehost them .

I totally support facebook leveraging their tech and data, all i am saying is that it will be discredited day one given the media hostility against it.

Re: Advances in NLP to better connect people

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I have refused to get hired by google and Facebook because they give me the creeps. Duck duck go cannot afford me. Maybe, we can start our own search/social/nlp startup? I don't care about making any money, if you are in the same boat as I am (dreading the status quo, wanting to do something, don't need or not driven by money, reply to this and we will try to make it happen - reminds me of the hypersane post from a couple days ago btw, the crazies not driven by materialism and can see through shit).

Re: Advances in NLP to better connect people

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I have refused to get hired by google and Facebook because they give me the creeps. Duck duck go cannot afford me. Maybe, we can start our own search/social/nlp startup? I don't care about making any money, if you are in the same boat as I am (dreading the status quo, wanting to do something, don't need or not driven by money, reply to this and we will try to make it happen - reminds me of the hypersane post from a c…

Honest question - If you don’t care about making any money, why can’t Duck Duck Go afford you?

Re: Advances in NLP to better connect people

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Hey, we're using NLP to help you rather than spy on you. No...really!

Why do companies even want to spy on you in the first place? Because advertisers want to target ads more effectively. Advertisers believe they can manipulate consumer behavior through ads, so they are willing to pay facebook a shit ton for it.

As NLP technology gets better and better, you won't even need traditional ads anymore. You can control people's behavior directly just by selectively boosting real organic posts that push for your agenda.

It's only impractical right now because they don't have the tech to get that sort of high level control. For example the recent controversy about Youtube radicalizing people with more and more extremist videos is just a bug. In a more boring dystopia you would just be shown better and better Mcdonald memes until you name your first-born a Mcnugget. I can't think of anything this tech won't touch once they have algorithmic control of information. Rather than targeting ads for elections, you might be able to say something like "find all posts that swing voters will find convincing and show it to them". Whoever can convince facebook to do that will name the next president.

Re: Advances in NLP to better connect people

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I have refused to get hired by google and Facebook because they give me the creeps. Duck duck go cannot afford me. Maybe, we can start our own search/social/nlp startup? I don't care about making any money, if you are in the same boat as I am (dreading the status quo, wanting to do something, don't need or not driven by money, reply to this and we will try to make it happen - reminds me of the hypersane post from a c…

Duck cannot afford you because the pay scales are now set by the very companies you despise, and those companies can afford those pay scales both they are able to extract monopoly profits (market structure issue) and your privacy is not a concern for them (which marketers are willing to pay for).

When we fix the market structure issue and address the legal issue of privacy, ironically, the pay issue of Duck not being able to afford you may even go away.

Re: Advances in NLP to better connect people

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Facebook has a great AI and apparently also NLP team , a great framework , and tons of resources. They should make a search engine.

They're already modern version of web directory with millions of contributors so they probably just need to organise it. Or they already did it ? Did they ?

i dont think so. i dont think they have a functioning search

Re: Advances in NLP to better connect people

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“To better connect people” is the Orwellian horseshit phrase of the week.

this was my reaction, too. please don't patronize me by telling me it's for my benefit. advances in things like NLP are great, especially for the social sciences, but it's not going to connect me to my (facebook) world.

Re: Advances in NLP to better connect people

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post #3

Facebook has a great AI and apparently also NLP team , a great framework , and tons of resources. They should make a search engine.

They're already modern version of web directory with millions of contributors so they probably just need to organise it. Or they already did it ? Did they ?

like the AOL of this generation
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