YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Gets 'Freedom Expression' Award Sponsored by YouTube

Post by slig » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 12:13 AM UTC

zouhair wrote: post #81

jollybean wrote: post #22

Let this be a lesson to all: intelligence does not in any way correlate with self awareness. It's likely that 'smart' people are just as likely to be unaware of their own follies or inabilities, I would argue, maybe more so as a lot of smart people tend to be 'inwardly focused' and less concerned about their direct environment. This kind of thing happens all the time among Exec. level, but normally we'd expect it fro…

"Smart" and "educated" people are the easiest to fool[0]. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbwWL5ezA4g

Post by benmmurphy » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 12:16 AM UTC

munk-a wrote: post #60

jkingsbery wrote: post #33

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There was also an episode of The Office (US) about this. Dwight suggests to Jim he starts an employee-of-the-month award, then rigs it so Jim wins so that everyone turns on Jim. Jim at least had the good sense to decline the award.

We can't really tell what is going on behind the curtain but my optimistic view is that no one in the room realized that receiving this award would have some terrible optics and that the awarders chose YouTube genuinely - if you have a narrow view of the content on there (and nobody sees everything) there are some segments where youtube does try to reinforce free speech sorta... maybe I'm being too charitable though.…

Post by bobthechef » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 12:19 AM UTC

jollybean wrote: post #22

Let this be a lesson to all: intelligence does not in any way correlate with self awareness. It's likely that 'smart' people are just as likely to be unaware of their own follies or inabilities, I would argue, maybe more so as a lot of smart people tend to be 'inwardly focused' and less concerned about their direct environment. This kind of thing happens all the time among Exec. level, but normally we'd expect it fro…

Post by throwaway3699 » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 12:22 AM UTC

cryptica wrote: post #21

I refreshed the HN home page and, for a brief moment, on the same page there was "YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Gets 'Freedom Expression' Award Sponsored by YouTube" right above another link about YouTube CEO banning videos which don't align with COVID19 WHO guidelines... We live in a clown world. Even if people thought that what she did was a good thing (which is debatable), it's a ridiculous idea to reward someone for…

Post by throwaway3699 » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 12:28 AM UTC

whereis wrote: post #98

all2 wrote: post #57

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I want to hear more about this.

A childhood friend committed suicide, I found out, then the next day or so my science-curated youtube feed suddenly showed me a totally out of context video in the top spot with content that mocked my friend's life. It appeared as though google/youtube algos used the data point about my friend's suicide to perform a psychological experiment on me. At the least, this was amoral, but appeared malicious to me. I fail to…