Filtering: Seven Principles

Now Google, Microsoft, Facebook, all mean well. They want to help us. The filters-at-source are there to personalise service to us, to make things simple and convenient for us. The risks that Pariser and Zittrain speak of are, to an extent, unintended consequences of well-meaning design.

The difficulty of judging subjective interestingness has long held the attention of the field of open-endedness (https://www.oreilly.com/radar/open-endedness-the-last-grand-challenge-youve-never-heard-of/ ). Many ideas have been proposed and one of the simplest of those is simply to stop trying to assess and optimize interestingness. Instead, the i... See more