Are we living through an algorithmic induced dystopia? If we are, will the future bring any amelioration?
@tg9541 What about those people who do not have the sophistication nor the tools not to be influenced by #algorithms? What about those who have no choice such as those for instance who have their job application decided by an #algorithm?
@bibliolater algorithmic mechanisms (e.g., so called AI, or simple score systems) operate in learning societies. They provide some result but it's hard to tell if they help those who apply them (Wiener wrote on that in Cybernetics, 2nd ed. chapter IX, see below).
This said, dystopia can be real - for a generation of two. Then it's normality, and the agent who first helped institutionalize it, dissolves (I'm referring to Whitehead's famous adage in Process and Reality).
https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/4581/Cybernetics-or-Control-and-Communication-in-the
@bibliolater I think the answer is subjective, but sociological objectivization might be possible if individual-societal dynamics is assumed and if the questioner remains keenly aware of the tentative nature of answers, relative to the aspect.
I observe that a large groups of people allow their reality to be algorithmically determined for the worse, while other people choose to have none of that. An amelioration is possible if the public space remains independent.#ANT #scepticism #philosophy