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Democracies must be structured to resist winner-take-all politics i...
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periodic confrontations between competing mirror-image big data ...
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Just as a small, local player in a market loses local information advantages in the shadow of a Siren Server, so does a local political activist.
The activist becomes like a general practitioner doctor, who acts more and more as a front man for insurance or pharmaceutical Siren Servers.
It’s not that it doesn’t work in the short term, because it does, but that it becomes increasingly divorced from reality. Just as networked services that choose music for you don’t have real taste, a cloud-computing engine that effectively chooses your politicians doesn’t have political wisdom.
Optimization is not the same thing as truth.
now we more or less can, but that doesn’t mean that paranoia is any more justified or useful.*
Politics has always nurtured and exploited paranoia, and I chose Texaphobia only because it is the funniest and mildest example I could think of.
If the party with the biggest/best computer wins, then a grounded political dialog doesn’t matter so much. Reality becomes less relevant, just as it does in big business big data.
Big data means big money works ...
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The bell curve must overwhelm the winner-take-all curve.
Maybe the Way We Complain Is Part of the Problem
the two sides agree about one thing. Both agree that social media like Facebook and Twitter are part of the solution.
gotten wise to the idea that if you can assemble information about other people, that information makes you powerful.
