Mass media in general has been profiting off rumors, gossip, and falsehoods for a long time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism The difference here is FB is doing it algorithmically on a much larger scale.
It seems you've got it backwards. Abrahamic religions, for example, created an "I-It" relationship by declaring nature to be subordinate to mankind in Genesis. The theory of evolution and the science of ecology defines…
Indeed. And yet life expectancy is still lower for men, and is getting worse. Can we not talk about that for a moment?
Your anecdotal dismissal supports the parent commenter's point.
Money can create popularity.
>Do you actually have something concrete in mind here Ideals codified in law. For example, the 1rst and 2nd Amendments. When generalizing with national boundaries, I of course do not mean to imply that literally…
What about the Network Effect? What does it matter if anyone can have a say if they don't get heard?
Are you asserting Twitter can't influence elections?
Just to clarify: by "material basis" I dont mean "intrinisic" but rather "representational" like how when money was first invented, 1 unit of money represented 1 unit of material wealth (i.e. one cow)
According to that logic, does money have any material basis in reality? Or is it purely authoritarian in nature?
>hating on Facebook is an excellent excuse for people to feel superior to the general population. "I know better than those ignorant proles, I wish they'd do what I think is best for them instead of what they want to…
Do you consider it a free market if the government bails out big price manipulators when their scheme implodes?
A day full of intellectual stimulation and fun doesn't sound like a "waste" to me
How would you define what intelligence is, in simple terms to a layman?
Perhaps it signals the person has a healthy work life balance. >We go to work to get paid for our skills, not to go camping together or share our love of bird watching. Some people prefer to work on teams where they're…
>So the solution then, should be to socialize people in such a way that such views do get challenged. Which is precisely the opposite of what these major corporate speech platforms are doing by creating filter bubbles…
Algorithmic bias does not have to be an intentional "hack" to have drastic effects.
Classification
When Copernicus mathematically determined that the sun was at the center of the universe rather than the earth, was that "actual comprehension", or "perceived comprehension"?
Who is suggesting that consciousness is completely dependent on having "the laws of physics perfectly tuned"? Obviously there are other conditions outside the scope of just physics that must be met to foster life
Without genetic testing you could not objectively know for sure if that was a lion or some other species. Just because a lot of people agree on something based on shallow observations does not make it objective science.…
Why did you interpet what I said as meaning there is no distinction between different forms of matter/life?
>There are many things we don't understand, and as time pass we gradually understand more and more of them. On the contrary, when it comes to the fundamental nature of the universe, the more we've come to understand,…
>Religion was created as a tool to control people and explain natural disasters. Mythology and religion also orignally served the role of upholding a unified value system and conception of reality which is critical for…
Is abstaining from conspicuous consumerism virtuous? If so, there is virtue to be gained by not exposing yourself to the incessant, persuasive, and obnoxious advertisements of television. When I quit TV I stopped…
Mass media in general has been profiting off rumors, gossip, and falsehoods for a long time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism The difference here is FB is doing it algorithmically on a much larger scale.
It seems you've got it backwards. Abrahamic religions, for example, created an "I-It" relationship by declaring nature to be subordinate to mankind in Genesis. The theory of evolution and the science of ecology defines…
Indeed. And yet life expectancy is still lower for men, and is getting worse. Can we not talk about that for a moment?
Your anecdotal dismissal supports the parent commenter's point.
Money can create popularity.
>Do you actually have something concrete in mind here Ideals codified in law. For example, the 1rst and 2nd Amendments. When generalizing with national boundaries, I of course do not mean to imply that literally…
What about the Network Effect? What does it matter if anyone can have a say if they don't get heard?
Are you asserting Twitter can't influence elections?
Just to clarify: by "material basis" I dont mean "intrinisic" but rather "representational" like how when money was first invented, 1 unit of money represented 1 unit of material wealth (i.e. one cow)
According to that logic, does money have any material basis in reality? Or is it purely authoritarian in nature?
>hating on Facebook is an excellent excuse for people to feel superior to the general population. "I know better than those ignorant proles, I wish they'd do what I think is best for them instead of what they want to…
Do you consider it a free market if the government bails out big price manipulators when their scheme implodes?
A day full of intellectual stimulation and fun doesn't sound like a "waste" to me
How would you define what intelligence is, in simple terms to a layman?
Perhaps it signals the person has a healthy work life balance. >We go to work to get paid for our skills, not to go camping together or share our love of bird watching. Some people prefer to work on teams where they're…
>So the solution then, should be to socialize people in such a way that such views do get challenged. Which is precisely the opposite of what these major corporate speech platforms are doing by creating filter bubbles…
Algorithmic bias does not have to be an intentional "hack" to have drastic effects.
Classification
When Copernicus mathematically determined that the sun was at the center of the universe rather than the earth, was that "actual comprehension", or "perceived comprehension"?
Who is suggesting that consciousness is completely dependent on having "the laws of physics perfectly tuned"? Obviously there are other conditions outside the scope of just physics that must be met to foster life
Without genetic testing you could not objectively know for sure if that was a lion or some other species. Just because a lot of people agree on something based on shallow observations does not make it objective science.…
Why did you interpet what I said as meaning there is no distinction between different forms of matter/life?
>There are many things we don't understand, and as time pass we gradually understand more and more of them. On the contrary, when it comes to the fundamental nature of the universe, the more we've come to understand,…
>Religion was created as a tool to control people and explain natural disasters. Mythology and religion also orignally served the role of upholding a unified value system and conception of reality which is critical for…
Is abstaining from conspicuous consumerism virtuous? If so, there is virtue to be gained by not exposing yourself to the incessant, persuasive, and obnoxious advertisements of television. When I quit TV I stopped…