Unfortunately I don’t really have the time to do this well, and I think it would be a pretty bad post if I wrote the version that would be ~2 hours of effort or less.
The next Alignment Newsletter will include twoarticles on recommender systems that mostly disagree with the “recommender systems are driving polarization” position; you might be interested in those. (In fact, I did this shallow dive because I wanted to make sure I wasn’t neglecting arguments pointing in the opposite direction.)
EDIT: To be clear, I’d be excited for someone else to develop this into a post. The majority of my relevant thoughts are in the comments I already wrote, which anyone should feel free to use :)
Have you considered developing these comments into a proper EA Forum post?
Unfortunately I don’t really have the time to do this well, and I think it would be a pretty bad post if I wrote the version that would be ~2 hours of effort or less.
The next Alignment Newsletter will include two articles on recommender systems that mostly disagree with the “recommender systems are driving polarization” position; you might be interested in those. (In fact, I did this shallow dive because I wanted to make sure I wasn’t neglecting arguments pointing in the opposite direction.)
EDIT: To be clear, I’d be excited for someone else to develop this into a post. The majority of my relevant thoughts are in the comments I already wrote, which anyone should feel free to use :)