[P2P-F] Fwd: Fwd - Joe Brewer on Medium: The Most Powerful Algorithm in the World (hint: not Facebook's)

Michel Bauwens michel at p2pfoundation.net
Wed Dec 7 10:37:48 CET 2016


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From: N E <ne_atl at onebox.com>
Date: Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 2:27 PM
Subject: Fwd - Joe Brewer on Medium: The Most Powerful Algorithm in the
World (hint: not Facebook's)
To: Joe <circlejoe at gmail.com>


Hi Joe,
Thanks for publishing your Medium essay reminding us that algorithms, as
pervasive as they are now, predate the digital world and have had
consequential ripple effects.  I'm bcc'ing the essay link to others.

Perhaps the original underlying adverse human algorithm is the concept of
the 'zero sum game'  positing that one tribe must win at the expense of
another tribe (1-1=0) ?
IMHO this win/lose thinking, though rooted in primal natural scarcity, had
the effect of being amplified to justify colonialism and expropriation,
setting the pattern for many societies even today.  Regards,

- Nurul Eusufzai,
  Chicago,  IL

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The Most Powerful Algorithm in the World
by Joe Brewer

" But there are more powerful algorithms to be reckoned with.
I will share three… two that are created by humans and one that will be the
ultimate arbiter of outcomes in the future..."
https://medium.com/@joe_brewer/the-most-
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-- PS --

For whatever it's worth, Guardian piece
by @CaroleCadwalla
(Note professor Albright's eye-popping 'spatial map of the rightwing fake
news ecosystem' - a type of culture design in its own way)

"Tech-savvy rightwingers have been able to ‘game’ the algorithms of
internet giants and create a new reality"
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/04/
<https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/04/google-democracy-truth-internet-search-facebook>
google-democracy-truth-internet-search-facebook
<https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/04/google-democracy-truth-internet-search-facebook>

https://mobile.twitter.com/d1gi?p=s



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