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Jaron Lanier: Fear of an Algorithmic Planet
Decoding the Gurus
Is There a Bell Curve?
If you have a thousand people, and you're going to tell those thousand people, we want you to form affinity groups. You'll end up with all these clusters, and then within them, you'll say, oh a, which music do you like the best? And you'll endup with a bunch of different answers from the different clusters. As as it gets bigger and bigger, it'll start proach a bell curve, meaning that there'll be kind of an average that comes out. That's a mathematical feature of reality. I don't know if it has some degree of normality but i think it's a similar analogy for what he's talking about. Soe ye.
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