Googling 'abortion clinic near me'? The top result often an anti-abortion clinic
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#3I would like some meta-science done of 'experts'.
For example, if I google "best doctor near me", and then go to all of the top 10 and present the same symptoms, how often will the recommendations given be the same?
Or "Best furniture restorer" - how many will advise the same treatment to preserve my old wooden table?
If we had some objective measure of the differences between expert opinions, we could perhaps start to use maths and statistics to make consensus models of all the experts in a field.
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#4Seems consistent with google results today. They never match with actual best results, it’s usually just harder to notice.
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#5I just googled GitHub and the top results were ads for circleci and gitlab. Buying ads for competitors keywords is extremely normal. Gitlab would love to dissuade me from using GitHub, just as a crisis pregnancy center would love to dissuade me from getting an abortion.
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#6I would like some meta-science done of 'experts'. For example, if I google "best doctor near me", and then go to all of the top 10 and present the same symptoms, how often will the recommendations given be the same? Or "Best furniture restorer" - how many will advise the same treatment to preserve my old wooden table? If we had some objective measure of the differences between expert opinions, we could perhaps start…
The problem there is that "most common opinion" is not necessarily the correct one, especially for a difficult problem.
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#7I just googled GitHub and the top results were ads for circleci and gitlab. Buying ads for competitors keywords is extremely normal. Gitlab would love to dissuade me from using GitHub, just as a crisis pregnancy center would love to dissuade me from getting an abortion.
As an another example, searching for the "Lenovo Smart Paper" gives me as a sponsored link his concurrent, the Remarkable.
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#8Maybe NPR is well-intended here...but stuff like "calling on legislators to ban misleading advertising" is about as realistic as calling on Donald Trump to endorse Bernie Sanders. Google's obvious for-profit strategy is to talk up their half-hearted Whack-a-Mole efforts, while raking in the ad revenue.
Giving the story a second skim... There's plenty of talk about the difficulties of getting accurate information and an actual abortion. Plenty of links to edgy pro-life material. But zero mention of any other search engine, which might give less-skewed results to a woman facing a difficult choice. And near-zero mention of web sites where such a woman might directly turn for accurate information.
Conclusion: NPR is anti-choice, but trying to hide that fact.
/s?
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#9I just googled GitHub and the top results were ads for circleci and gitlab. Buying ads for competitors keywords is extremely normal. Gitlab would love to dissuade me from using GitHub, just as a crisis pregnancy center would love to dissuade me from getting an abortion.
In what way are these situations comparable?
If you google GitHub you’re probably looking for source control. GitLab offers source control.
If you google “abortion providers” you’re looking to get an abortion. The ads you see are specifically for people who want to look like abortion providers but actually seek to stop you from getting one and don’t provide any abortion services at all.
It’s like googling GitHub and the top result being a religious group that considers source control to be an abomination, disguising themselves until you’ve paid for an account when they can inundate you with propaganda.
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#10Does the field of AI safety apply here?
Here is a legitimate case of people using artificial intelligence to facilitate murder... and people are mad it didn't comply?