What we talk about when we talk about The Algo

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For some people, a fair algorithm is one that reflects today’s society. For others, a fair algorithm must be an agent of social change.

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So you want to escape the algorithm

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But the catch was that this was never a sustainable long-term strategy, at least not for the purposes of promoting an open ecosystem. User-generated data is vulnerable to a family of sub optimizations such as Goodhart’s Law, in which using a “measure” as a “metric” devalues the measure itself. If you’re Google building PageRank on natural weblinks ... See more

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First We Shape Our Social Graph; Then It Shapes Us

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A Blog Post Is a Very Long and Complex Search Query to Find Fascinating People and Make Them Route Interesting Stuff to Your Inbox

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A 2023 Look-back: the internet dies, etc.

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