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Much of the current debate on algorithmic culture revolves around the role that humans play in the design of algorithms — that is, whether a creator's subconscious beliefs and biases are encoded into the algorithms that make decisions about us.
We need an "algorithmic culture".
John Brockman, in a brief essay on Edge, calls these geeks who went on to do something else the algorithmic culture, dedicated to learning something about the world by understanding the actual code behind the internet.
The claim that we live in an "algorithmic culture" is propaganda designed to devalue human work still further.
Our supposedly algorithmic culture is not a material phenomenon so much as a devotional one, a supplication made to the computers we have allowed to replace gods in our minds, even as we simultaneously claim that science has made us impervious to religion.
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However, instead of accepting this new reality as a fait accompli, we must ensure that, in pursuing greater profits, our new algorithmic gatekeepers are forced to accept the idea that their culture-defining function comes with great responsibility.
Twitter's big problem, meanwhile, is that every move towards a sunnier, more positive culture – appointing a "safety council" to tackle harassment, offering an optional algorithmic feed that promotes tweets you might like, or introducing an animated heart symbol for content users like – prompts furious complaints that it's becoming like Facebook.
They arrive with algorithmic regularity.
But in algorithmic times, "so" conveys an algorithmic certitude.
What is "objective" about such algorithmic "truths"?
It's an algorithmic view of life.
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