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Meredith L. Patterson@maradydd• over 8 years ago

God it's weird watching the internet try to figure out how to develop critical thinking skills. https://t.co/Po4B8pPq0o (1/14)

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Meredith L. Patterson@maradydd• over 8 years ago

Replying to @maradydd

A few years ago, @mrdomino asked me, "What do you trust?" I wanted to reply truthfully. So I said, "Reductions to halting." (2/14)

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Meredith L. Patterson@maradydd• over 8 years ago

Replying to @maradydd

Decidable problems are priceless. For everything else, there's pattern-matching, and when that inevitably fails, there's MasterCard. (3/14)

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Meredith L. Patterson@maradydd• over 8 years ago

Replying to @maradydd

When your problem domain only admits so much rigor, an excess of rigor is a disadvantage. (4/14)

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Meredith L. Patterson@maradydd• over 8 years ago

Replying to @maradydd

For example, when the domain requires encoding semantic content into natural language. Like journalism. (5/14)

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Meredith L. Patterson@maradydd• over 8 years ago

Replying to @maradydd

Developing your own critical-thinking filter is difficult and error-prone enough as it is. (6/14)

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Meredith L. Patterson@maradydd• over 8 years ago

Replying to @maradydd

No two people's critical thinking filters agree on everything, yet folks want Facebook to build a universal one? Good luck with that. (7/14)

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Meredith L. Patterson@maradydd• over 8 years ago

Replying to @maradydd

More to the point, though, the "fake news problem," at its core, has nothing to do with facts at all. It's about advertising. (8/14)

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Meredith L. Patterson@maradydd• over 8 years ago

Replying to @maradydd

If a site can get you to click, that site has made its money by the time the page is done loading. (9/14)

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Meredith L. Patterson@maradydd• over 8 years ago

Replying to @maradydd

Unless you can change that incentive, you cannot solve the "fake news" problem. It is a subset of the clickbait problem. (10/14)

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Meredith L. Patterson@maradydd• over 8 years ago

Replying to @maradydd

Article doesn't deliver what the headline promised? Too bad; those ads were done loading by the time you got a paragraph in. (11/14)

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Meredith L. Patterson@maradydd• over 8 years ago

Replying to @maradydd

Of course, no social media company will recognise this. Their advertising bottom line obligates them not to. (12/14)

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Meredith L. Patterson@maradydd• over 8 years ago

Replying to @maradydd

If you want to eliminate fake news, find business models that don't rely on whoring users' attention out to advertisers. (13/14)

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Meredith L. Patterson@maradydd• over 8 years ago

Replying to @maradydd

I know finding new business models is hard. But your options are that, or drown in clickbait. Best of luck. (14/14)

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

Replying to @maradydd

@maradydd sell excess attention & risk stealing it, or sell product of attention & risk commodity fetishism. Is there a third way? Share?

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