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The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World a book by Max Fisher
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complex information should be disclosed and made available in a format that is both standardized and machine readable.
Cass R. Sunstein • Nudge: The Final Edition
But the catch was that this was never a sustainable long-term strategy, at least not for the purposes of promoting an open ecosystem. User-generated data is vulnerable to a family of sub optimizations such as Goodhart’s Law, in which using a “measure” as a “metric” devalues the measure itself. If you’re Google building PageRank on natural weblinks ... See more
Brian Flynn • Reputation in Web3: Ships Built on the Great Flood
Hiring algorithms are but one example of a larger set of technologies which promise to disclose some deeper truth about the self or the world that would be otherwise unnoticed. Similar tools are deployed in the realms of finance, criminal justice, and health care among others. The underlying assumption, occasionally warranted, is that analyzing cop... See more
L. M. Sacasas • The Uncanny Gaze of the Machine
It's a surprising and unfortunate fact that the majority of the world's research, mostly conducted with public funding, is kept behind paywalls run by a tiny number of publishing corporations. But perhaps it doesn't have to be this way.
Crypto Sci-Hub and the Decentralization of Science
Predictive algorithms are everywhere these days, as are concerns that they embed & perpetuate discrimination
In a new (short!) working paper with David Arnold & Will Dobbie, we develop + apply new quasi-experimental tools to address these concerns!
https://t.co/4pZ0BI4K81
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The Bitcoin network is the first practical instance of cryptoeconomics. It produces “trust by math” rather than “trust by legal contract.”
Shermin Voshmgir • Token Economy
“The villain here is not necessarily the internet, or even the idea of social media,” she writes. “It is the invasive logic of commercial social media, and its financial incentive to keep us in a profitable state of anxiety, envy, and distraction.” The business model of platforms like this — which rely on advertising and clicks and “en
... See moreJenny Odell • How to quit Facebook without quitting Facebook
