post-algorithm world
what comes after the algorithm?
Keely Adler and
post-algorithm world
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... See moreJon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
You do not have to surrender your commitment to facts to participate in an alternate reality. You just have to engage with one, in any way. If you are a user of digital systems, if you allow them to provide you recommendations, if you train them on your preferences, if you respond in any way to the likes, downvotes, re-shares, and comment features ... See more
The New Atlantis • Reality Is Just a Game Now
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?”
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
There will be zero credence given to The Algorithm, and we will not be making data-driven editorial decisions.
from Rob Hardy - foster
attention as an outgrowth of interest and, crucially, of choice.
Megan Garber • The Great Fracturing of American Attention
ALLYN: More of the same, that's what people online are complaining about. And it makes sense because algorithms serve up recommendations based on a vast amount of data the AI has gathered on you. If you like this, well, then you might like this. This is true when we listen to podcasts, read articles, shop online, use social media. It's everywhere. ... See more
Bobby Allyn • Examining the growing movement against the algorithms that control ...
ppl want less of the same, not more of the same
After the Creator Economy
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