Comment by Llamamoe
2 days ago
> the solution might be to enable many areas of curation but in each domain the thing people see is the same for everyone.
Doesn't this already happen to some extent, with content being classified into advertiser-friendly bins and people's feeds being populated primarily by top content from within the bins the algorithm deems they have an interest in?
> Once you feel like it is not necessary to make your case, but just shout the loudest, you lose the ability to win over people who disagree because they don't like you shouting and you haven't made your case.
To some extent, this is how human communication always worked. I think the biggest problem is that the digital version of it is sufficiently different from the natural one, and sufficiently influenceable by popular and/or powerful actors, that it enables very pathological outcomes.
>Doesn't this already happen to some extent, with content being classified into advertiser-friendly bins and people's feeds being populated primarily by top content from within the bins the algorithm deems they have an interest in?
The distinction I think would be with publicly disclosable algorithms, you would at least know why you were receiving a particular thing and have the option to not subscribe to that particular algorithm. Ideally such things would be properly, open source. Once public, algorithms are subject to gaming. Open source provides the many eyes and feedback required to stay ahead of the bad actors.