• TJA!@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    That’s not what I wrote. It’s just that they were complaining about the wrong thing. Algorithms are not bad, just how they are sometimes used is bad. Most of the time they are applied in a good or neutral way.

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      4 days ago

      Well I didn’t write anything about phones, I was talking about social media echo-chambers, but you took that there.

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        4 days ago

        Okay then let’s get rid of the phone, it was just an example either way. Every program consists of algorithms, no matter where it is installed: in your phone, car or TV. In a street light, a digital thermometer or a smoke detector.

        You wrote:

        get rid of anything that’s an algorithm.

        If we do that, no digital thing will work anymore. It’s not just social media. Or phones. It’s everything.

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          4 days ago

          get rid of anything that’s an algorithm.

          you get my point, yet you refuse to get my point, we have nothing left here to discuss