Tuesday, December 05, 2023

Book excerpt: Bonuses and promotions causing bad incentives

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(This is an excerpt from my book, "Algorithms and Misinformation: Why Wisdom of the Crowds Failed the Internet and How to Fix It")...
Monday, December 04, 2023

The failure of big data

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For decades, the focus in machine learning has been big data. More data beats better algorithms, said an early 2001 result from Banko and ...
Friday, December 01, 2023

Book excerpt: Manipulating customer reviews

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(This is an excerpt from my book, "Algorithms and Misinformation: Why Wisdom of the Crowds Failed the Internet and How to Fix It")...
Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Book excerpt: The problem is bad incentives

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(This is an excerpt from drafts of my book, "Algorithms and Misinformation: Why Wisdom of the Crowds Failed the Internet and How to Fix...
Monday, November 27, 2023

Tim O'Reilly on algorithmic tuning for exploitation

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Tim O'Reilly, Mariana Mazzucato, and Ilan Strauss have three working papers focusing on Amazon's ability to extract unusual profits ...
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Sunday, November 26, 2023

Book excerpt: People determine what the algorithms do

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(This is an excerpt from drafts of my book, "Algorithms and Misinformation: Why Wisdom of the Crowds Failed the Internet and How to Fix...
Friday, November 17, 2023

Book excerpt: How companies build algorithms using experimentation

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(This is an excerpt from drafts of my book, "Algorithms and Misinformation: Why Wisdom of the Crowds Failed the Internet and How to Fix...

It's easy for social media to fill with astroturf

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Most underestimate how easy it is for social media to become dominated by astroturf. It's easy. All you need is a few people creating an...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Book excerpt: How some companies get it right

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(This is an excerpt from drafts of my book, "Algorithms and Misinformation: Why Wisdom of the Crowds Failed the Internet and How to Fix...
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Thursday, November 09, 2023

Book excerpt: Table of Contents

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(This is the Table of Contents from my book, "Algorithms and Misinformation: Why Wisdom of the Crowds Failed the Internet and How to Fi...
Monday, October 30, 2023

Book excerpt: Overview from the book proposal

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(This is an excerpt from the book proposal for my unpublished book, "Algorithms and Misinformation: Why Wisdom of the Crowds Failed the...
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Friday, October 27, 2023

Book excerpt: The irresistible lure of an unlocked house

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(This is an excerpt from drafts of my unpublished book, "Algorithms and Misinformation: Why Wisdom of the Crowds Failed the Internet an...
Saturday, October 21, 2023

A summary of my book

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My book is the untold story of the algorithms that shape our lives, how they went terribly wrong, and how to fix them. Most people now have...
Thursday, October 19, 2023

Book excerpt: The problem is fake crowds

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(This is an excerpt from my book. Please let me know if you like it and want more.) It is usually unintentional. Companies don’t intend for...
Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Book excerpt: Mark as spam, the long fight to keep emails and texts useful

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(This is an excerpt from my book. Please let me know if you like it and want more.) The first email on the internet was sent in 1971. Back...
Monday, October 16, 2023

Cory Doctorow on enshittification

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Another good piece by Cory on enshittification, with details about Facebook, some on how A/B testing optimizes for enshittification, and up...
Friday, October 13, 2023

To stop disinformation, stop astroturf

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(this is a version of an excerpt from my book, if you like it please let me know) There's a lot of discussion of removing disinformati...
Monday, October 09, 2023

Book excerpt: The problem is not the algorithm

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(This is an excerpt from the draft of my book. Please let me know if you like it and want more of these.) “The Algorithm,” in scare quotes...
Saturday, October 07, 2023

Book excerpt: Metrics chasing engagement

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(This is an excerpt from the draft of my book. Please let me know if you like it and want more.) Let’s say you are in charge of building a...
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Saturday, August 19, 2023

AI letter signers not worried about doomsday AI

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An article in Wired, " A Letter Prompted Talk of AI Doomsday. Many Who Signed Weren't Actually AI Doomers ": A significant nu...