So your position is that mankind should create a mechanism which grades content based on whether it pushes the users towards actual degradation or obvious falsehoods, not on whether it helps the user discover one’s actual preferences in some way. And protect the user from the former and not from the latter.
What I don’t understand is the following.
Is it possible that the list of obvious falsehoods ends up including something actually true? How could one prevent it?
We are to somehow tell apart discovered preferences and artificially induced ones. The questions like “What exactly are the latter preferences” and “what should be done with them” are likely a part of the ongiong culture war.
Yeah, I guess that’s what I was alluding to when I wrote “I don’t even know what the desirable outcome is here”; my intuitions seem to produce nigh-impossible requirements which suggest a confused ontology embedded in said intuitions.
Feels like there’s a problem out there, (increasingly more powerful influencing tech) but I haven’t a clue what to do with it.
So your position is that mankind should create a mechanism which grades content based on whether it pushes the users towards actual degradation or obvious falsehoods, not on whether it helps the user discover one’s actual preferences in some way. And protect the user from the former and not from the latter.
What I don’t understand is the following.
Is it possible that the list of obvious falsehoods ends up including something actually true? How could one prevent it?
We are to somehow tell apart discovered preferences and artificially induced ones. The questions like “What exactly are the latter preferences” and “what should be done with them” are likely a part of the ongiong culture war.
Yeah, I guess that’s what I was alluding to when I wrote “I don’t even know what the desirable outcome is here”; my intuitions seem to produce nigh-impossible requirements which suggest a confused ontology embedded in said intuitions.
Feels like there’s a problem out there, (increasingly more powerful influencing tech) but I haven’t a clue what to do with it.