[ExI] youtube a radicalizer

[William Flynn Wallace]

​I totally forgot to mention that I got these ideas from an article that
appeared in the New York Times yesterday.  They did not come from me.
Sorry if I misled you.  bill w​

On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 6:16 PM, Robert G Kennedy III, PE <robot at ultimax.com
> wrote:

> Concur w/Bill W's experience.
>
> Recently, I searched for the "Radetzsky March" on YouTube. (The one that
> they always play on New Year's Day at the Vienna Staatsoper, wherein the
> audience clapping was explicitly scored in by the composer Strauss Jr.)
>
> After I watched it, the Recommended screen refreshed itself.  Among other
> highly-ranked suggestions appeared the "Horst Wessel Song", with swastika
> and all.  WTF?  I was pretty stunned.
>
> RGK3
>
>
> On 2018-03-12 16:15, extropy-chat-request at lists.extropy.org wrote:
>
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 11:00:52 -0500
>> From: William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
>> To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
>> Subject: [ExI] youtube a radicalizer
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>>
>> In the NYT
>>
>> The journalist created two accounts:  one in which she viewed liberal
>> videos, the other, conservative.
>>
>> The Youtube algorithm recommended videos that were more radical than the
>> ones she viewed:
>>
>> After viewing Trump rallies, she was recommended white supremacy ones.
>>
>> After viewing Clinton and Sanders, she got recommendations alluding to a
>> conspiracy in gov. that was behind the towers attack. (this is liberal?)
>>
>> After viewing videos about vegetarianism, she got ones about vegans.
>>
>> After viewing jogging, she got marathons.
>>
>> Quite a consistent pattern.
>>
>> The idea behind the algorithm must be that keeping on viewing Youtube must
>> depend on interest level, and people are more interested in the radical
>> ideas than more moderate ones.
>>
>> The media itself is radicalizing.  I don't have to tell you that someone
>> at
>> Google knows something about psychology.
>>
>> bill w
>>
>
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