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KHC 003 - Chris Williamson

Cameron Hanes - Keep Hammering Collective

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Is It Getting Worse?

The data seems to suggest that the political polarization is getting worse. There's a thought experiment called the paperclip maximizer. You can happily point out the other side's flaws and forgive your own. This is just the nature of biases, right? That's absolutely fine for you to say that I've got my priors. But you can't step into the situation and say coming from a place of reasonable rationality, I have morally reasoned that this is the way that it's not. It's not. And one of the issues that Stuart brings up in compatible is with social media content. Two ways that the algorithms could increase the amount of human-friendly content are by reprogramming users

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