Aligning Recommender Systems as Cause Area
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Rohin Shah 4y 64 0 0 The result is software that is extremely addictive , with a host of hard-to-measure side effects on users and society including harm to relationships , reduced cognitive capacity , and political radicalization . As far as I can tell, this is all the evidence given in this post that there is in fact a problem. Two of the four links are news articles, which I ignore on the principle that news articles are roughly uncorrelated with the truth. (On radicalization I've seen specific arguments arguing against the claim.) One seems to be a paper studying what users believe about t
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