{"id":5,"date":"2016-07-21T16:47:19","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T16:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pro.freezine.org\/remediary0com\/?p=5"},"modified":"2017-02-02T14:23:08","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T14:23:08","slug":"the-rationality-of-algorithms-facebook-algorithm-google-algorithms-or-no-algorithm-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pro.freezine.org\/remediary0com\/2016\/07\/21\/the-rationality-of-algorithms-facebook-algorithm-google-algorithms-or-no-algorithm-at-all\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rationality of Algorithms: Facebook Algorithm, Google Algorithms or No Algorithm at All?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you could choose any of the following three options, which one would you pick?<\/h3>\n
    \n
  1. Facebook Algorithm<\/li>\n
  2. Google Algorithms<\/li>\n
  3. No Algorithm whatsoever<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Granted: You probably have more choices than that \u2013 I’m just trying to keep it simple (stupid \ud83d\ude09 ).<\/h3>\n

    Let’s review the steps involved.<\/h3>\n

    First, you publish something.<\/h3>\n

    Second, one of the algorithmic options above is applied in order to choose whether someone gets to see your post or not.<\/h3>\n

    Finally, people either see or don’t see your content.<\/h3>\n

    Which one would you choose?<\/h3>\n

    If you’re anything like me, you would probably choose #3 (\u201eNo Algorithm\u201c). What this means is that there would be no filter between writers and readers… \u2013 or rather: No external<\/em><\/strong> filters. No middleman<\/em><\/strong>. No chaperones, no censors, no manipulation, no mind-control.<\/h3>\n

    I am quite capable of thinking for myself, thank you very much. I can process large amounts of data quite well. I have (and apply) my own<\/em> machines and algorithms (i.e., applications aka software, etc.) to help me choose what to read (or ignore<\/a>). I don’t always use the same algorithm, because I don’t always want the same thing. What I want is mostly independent of where my current location is or what I happened to buy yesterday. My friends have different brains than I do, so they are free to choose different content at different times than I want here and now.<\/h3>\n

    As a writer, I definitely don’t want some big media<\/strong> company to censor what I write.<\/h3>\n

    In the rational media<\/em><\/strong> model, content producers and content consumers select (or \u201eself-select\u201c) each other via rational<\/em> terms used to agree on the topics of interaction, the scope of communication, the boundaries of what is deemed relevant (versus irrelevant). Such terms might be short phrases (such as \u201esummer vacation\u201c or \u201ethings to do\u201c), or single keywords (for example \u201eflights\u201c or \u201eactivities\u201c). Some strings might be on the verge<\/em> of natural language terms (e.g. \u201ecarwash\u201c or \u201efacebook\u201c). The point at which a term is deemed no longer rational<\/em> is when it is closely linked to the term being \u201eprotected<\/em>\u201c by so-called intellectual property law (such as trademark law). At that point, the term is no longer informative as an element of language \u2013 it then merely becomes an identifier (i.e., a proper<\/em> name for a specific entity or phenomenon).<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    If you could choose any of the following three options, which one would you pick? Facebook Algorithm Google Algorithms No Algorithm whatsoever Granted: You probably have more choices than that \u2013 I’m just trying to keep it simple (stupid \ud83d\ude09 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[313],"tags":[14,16,15,32,33,11,12,13,20,19,4,5,6,7,29,2,9,10,3,40,38,39,37,36,21,23,30,31,22,8,25,26,27,28,24,17,18,34,35],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9w79D-5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":191,"url":"http:\/\/pro.freezine.org\/remediary0com\/2019\/12\/23\/automatism-automaticity-20th-century\/","url_meta":{"origin":5,"position":0},"title":"Automatism + Automaticity \u2013 20th Century","author":"nmw","date":"December 23, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"If you thought my previous introduction was dark, then if you use your imagination a little to color in the details of what comes next, then you may actually begin to lose your faith in humanity \u2013 but I choose to spare you such sketches, because I myself don't even\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "remediary"","block_context":{"text":"remediary","link":"http:\/\/pro.freezine.org\/remediary0com\/topicat\/com\/com-remediary\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":107,"url":"http:\/\/pro.freezine.org\/remediary0com\/2018\/01\/02\/the-cooperative-principle-in-conversation-versus-the-prejudice-in-silence\/","url_meta":{"origin":5,"position":1},"title":"The Cooperative Principle in Conversation versus the Prejudice in Silence","author":"nmw","date":"January 2, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"In the following, I understand the Internet as a massive text connected by many participants conversing with one another. Parts of the text are in close connection, and the discussion can be viewed as heated insofar as the sub-texts reference each other in some way (links are merely one example\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "remediary"","block_context":{"text":"remediary","link":"http:\/\/pro.freezine.org\/remediary0com\/topicat\/com\/com-remediary\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":77,"url":"http:\/\/pro.freezine.org\/remediary0com\/2017\/05\/11\/blogs-are-born-free-yet-everywhere-they-are-in-seo\/","url_meta":{"origin":5,"position":2},"title":"Blogs are born free, yet everywhere they are in SEO","author":"nmw","date":"May 11, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"You might think I sound like Jean-Jacques Rousseau, but I can assure you there is no need to go back that far in time. Are you old enough to remember the case of Trent Lott? Or how about \u201cmiserable failure\u201d? Are you even aware that Google ever cleansed the web?\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "impost"","block_context":{"text":"impost","link":"http:\/\/pro.freezine.org\/remediary0com\/topicat\/org\/org-impost\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":185,"url":"http:\/\/pro.freezine.org\/remediary0com\/2019\/12\/21\/automatism-automaticity-first-thoughts\/","url_meta":{"origin":5,"position":3},"title":"Automatism + Automaticity \u2013 First Thoughts","author":"nmw","date":"December 21, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Automatism and automaticity are \u201creal concepts\u201d, but they are not widely used \u2026 or at least not widely used everywhere in the same way. One of the fields where these concepts are most widely used is in the broad field of medicine (or even more broadly biology). Here, the conceptual\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "remediary"","block_context":{"text":"remediary","link":"http:\/\/pro.freezine.org\/remediary0com\/topicat\/com\/com-remediary\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":217,"url":"http:\/\/pro.freezine.org\/remediary0com\/2020\/11\/06\/hope-change-flipping-the-f-word-removing-the-old-fashioned-r-word\/","url_meta":{"origin":5,"position":4},"title":"Hope & Change: Flipping the F-word & Removing the Old-Fashioned R-word","author":"nmw","date":"November 6, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"I have an important announcement to make: I've learned something -- and what I learned has helped me to change my course. Many years ago, I started using Facebook (in large part because one of my friends said \u201cfacebook\u201d was college slang for '[student] directory' -- and indeed, it may\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "remediary"","block_context":{"text":"remediary","link":"http:\/\/pro.freezine.org\/remediary0com\/topicat\/com\/com-remediary\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8,"url":"http:\/\/pro.freezine.org\/remediary0com\/2016\/07\/23\/anti-dis-establishment-arian-ism-antidisintermediation\/","url_meta":{"origin":5,"position":5},"title":"Anti-Dis-Establishment-Arian-Ism + AntiDisInterMediaTion","author":"nmw","date":"July 23, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"In this post, I plan to give you a small insight into some of the marketing \/ branding ideas I developed for this blog. One of the BIG IDEA moments behind \u201eremediary\u201c is simply that antidisintermediation is nothing other than remediation (and as that is in a rather oblique way\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "remediary"","block_context":{"text":"remediary","link":"http:\/\/pro.freezine.org\/remediary0com\/topicat\/com\/com-remediary\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pro.freezine.org\/remediary0com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pro.freezine.org\/remediary0com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pro.freezine.org\/remediary0com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pro.freezine.org\/remediary0com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pro.freezine.org\/remediary0com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/pro.freezine.org\/remediary0com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6,"href":"http:\/\/pro.freezine.org\/remediary0com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pro.freezine.org\/remediary0com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pro.freezine.org\/remediary0com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pro.freezine.org\/remediary0com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}