“You’re essentially indirectly competing against the smartest, most informationally savvy groups in the world.”
“You’re essentially indirectly competing against the smartest, most informationally savvy groups in the world.”
While Mr. Goldhaber said he wanted to remain hopeful, he was deeply concerned about whether the attention economy and a healthy democracy can coexist. Nuanced policy discussions, he said, will almost certainly get simplified into “meaningless slogans” in order to travel farther online, and politicians will continue to stake out more extreme positio... See more
nytimes.com • Opinion | Michael Goldhaber, the Cassandra of the Internet Age - The New York Times
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[T]hey identified a small group of the foxiest forecasters—bright people with extremely wide-ranging interests and unusually expansive reading habits, but no particular relevant background—and weighted team forecasts toward their predictions. They destroyed the competition. […] They were “curious about, well, really everything,” as one of the top f... See more
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Unless we work actively to become aware of the biases we introduce, the returns to additional information may be minimal—or diminishing.
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We face danger whenever information growth outpaces our understanding of how to process it.