Thursday, July 25, 2019
Wanna talk about bias?
Tired subject, but sometimes it's just too screechingly obvious.
Project Veritas has found the rare and valuable CURRENT PAID EMPLOYEE at Google who is willing to discuss how bias works. He makes the hugely important point that algorithms are NOT objective. Algorithms do what the programmer wants. I've made this point often, and all programmers understand it. Many PAID programmers lie about it. Now that a PAID CURRENT EMPLOYEE has said it, maybe it will be noticed. Probably not.
(Unnecessary update: Speaking of mindless automatic algorithms, the engineer has already been fired.)
Google is not the worst offender.
Scrolling through the top stories on news.google.com, it's a rational mix of the real top stories, and most are pretty well balanced. Mueller's fake senility** gets both sides, Epstein's fake suicide actually emphasizes his connections to the Clinton mob.
Bing fails the test totally. Scrolling down through the top items in news.bing.com, 26 of the first 35 are specifically about "climate change". Many of those 26 are utterly irrelevant by any standard. Dust pollution from unpaved roads in New Zealand. Really? Is that the 20th most important story in the world right now? Is it even the 20th most important story in New Zealand?
**Fake craziness is a standard mobster tactic. Vince Gigante used it effectively. No surprise that the Clinton mob knows how to use it.
Labels: Carbon Cult, Deadthink
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