allow people to do what they want to do, and as a result many of them will do wrong things;
have endless debates about what is the right thing; or
decide from the position of power what is the right thing.
...or some combination of them. For example, from the position of power we could declare the set of permissible choices, and then allow people to choose freely within this set.
Bubbles or not bubbles, that’s the same, but more meta. We could allow people to set up their bubble coefficient individually, but what if some stupid people will set it to 100% and will never be confronted with our wisdom? Or we leave the choice to the YouTube’s algorithm.
We have the following options:
allow people to do what they want to do, and as a result many of them will do wrong things;
have endless debates about what is the right thing; or
decide from the position of power what is the right thing.
...or some combination of them. For example, from the position of power we could declare the set of permissible choices, and then allow people to choose freely within this set.
Bubbles or not bubbles, that’s the same, but more meta. We could allow people to set up their bubble coefficient individually, but what if some stupid people will set it to 100% and will never be confronted with our wisdom? Or we leave the choice to the YouTube’s algorithm.