I think its a difficult problem. But an interesting one. At least, being human, we can cognise its an issue. I mean its not totally determinate. If it were we'd not be having this conversation.
The Machine would, however, not know that. By which I mean we are not determined by the tech, but the consequence of informational blockage (good things are often not seen, low on the Machine Food Chain) do skew the perceptional range of what we can actually get to see. Of course the whole idea of "ranking" in search tools is both central and a nest of vipers. Its a very important issue. IMO it was a big mistake to gert to point that we now routinely accept private companies are running the biggest informational system in history (net search). They should have been run as common cause outside any financial frameowrk. Something like that. My thoughts, TT On Thursday, 1 August 2019 18:27:47 UTC+2, h0p3 wrote: > > I am very interested in this problem. Technology is a double-edged sword; > it is only ever a means. What ends do you prescribe? TW does something > valuable in this space. What should it be? Where ought we go? > > On Thursday, August 1, 2019 at 7:36:08 AM UTC-4, @TiddlyTweeter wrote: >> >> I'm old and worn out. >> >> In the early days of the emergence of the net there was a whole >> sub-culture exploring "qualitative" data. What happened was that Google and >> other "Net Machines" took that work and implemented it as "quantative". >> >> Google makes no differentiation now. Your qualitative it makes >> quantative, whatever it is. That is part of its brilliance. And its horror. >> >> The residual issue is that the "open edge" gets closed. But that is >> exactly what should not have happened. >> >> Few people now understand the impetus towards "text-bases" (TW can be >> thought of as a "text-base") which recorded "EXPERIENCE", rather than >> "data-bases", which recorded the STATS of DOINGS. >> >> IMO, this issue is still alive, but muted in the avalanch of SERVER >> SAYINGS which are actually very partial. But DRIVING too much. Smothering >> the still live issue. >> >> No technology is innocent now. >> >> Josiah >> In deep(ish) thought >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/8b201187-f40e-4315-a5d1-d2e8511c9e00%40googlegroups.com.
