post-algorithm world
what comes after the algorithm?
Keely Adler and
post-algorithm world
Big Data processes codify the past. They do not invent the future. Doing that requires moral imagination, and that’s something only humans can provide. We have to explicitly embed better values into our algorithms, creating Big Data models that follow our ethical lead. Sometimes that will mean putting fairness ahead of profit.
Weapons of Math Destruction Quotes by Cathy O'Neil
After the Creator Economy
collect.metalabel.xyzattention as an outgrowth of interest and, crucially, of choice.
Megan Garber • The Great Fracturing of American Attention
This output of energy — the need to be patient, to tolerate lots of sifting, to engage in active effort — is precisely the opposite of the convenience/efficiency of highly sorted algorithmic feeds. There’s no shortcut to rewilding your brain, as far as I can tell.
Clive Thompson • 9 Ways to ‘Rewild Your Attention’
The true influence of Post Internet People on general internet socialization was both more subtle and more important than simply a shiny new social networking site. By joining the social internet after their parents were already there, they faced an especially dire version of “context collapse.” This is danah boyd’s term for when people from all yo
... See moreGretchen McCulloch • Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
these algorithms can do little else but recommend to us that which other people have already clicked on, suggesting an implicit (and deeply ideological) assumption that we always want more of what we’ve gotten before.
Freddie deBoer • Review: Kyle Chayka's Filterworld
reminds me of Yancey Strickler's comment on the Sublime zine: “once I’m so deep a rabbit how do I get out?”
You can use algorithms to surface new things. But algorithms are not nearly as good as human curators yet. Whatever pattern matching is going on inside the mind of Werner Herzog when he recommends books and films is yet superior to YouTube’s recommendation engine. Going from Herzog to Kapuściński and from Kapuściński to Mandelstam and Mandelstam to... See more
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