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Dwolb on April 22, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: What would open sourcing the Twitter algorithm act...

Jaron Lanier’s claim is the feedback mechanism (clicks, engagement) isn’t nuanced enough [1].

i.e. If the algorithm had more insight into a given person’s emotional (and intellectual?) response, the outcomes could be better than the status quo.

[1] https://open.spotify.com/episode/3DBNkrAY5sCIX2sqHpZ567?si=M...

JanneVee on April 22, 2022 [–]

The word here is "could"... It can and has been used for outcomes that hasn't favored the users interests. And that is in my view a worse outcome than status quo.

Dwolb on April 22, 2022 | [–]

I definitely hedged yeah.

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