This is the third in a series of posts studying how Facebook's newsfeed affects
political polarization. To recap:
* In the first [https://bounded-regret.ghost.io/recsys-deepdive/] post, I
showed that polarization
This is the second in a series of posts seeking to understand the effect of
social media on political polarization. In the first part
[https://bounded-regret.ghost.io/recsys-deepdive/], I argued that aggregate
In June, I did a podcast with my friend Kanjun and Josh from Generally
Intelligent [https://generallyintelligent.ai/]. I forgot to fit the announcement
into the blog schedule, so now here it is
Earlier this year, my research group commissioned 6 questions
[https://prod.hypermind.com/ngdp/en/showcase2/showcase.html?sc=JSAI] for
professional forecasters to predict about AI. Broadly speaking, 2 were on
geopolitical
Polarization caused by social media is seen by many as an important societal
problem, which also overlaps [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.10939.pdf] with AI
alignment [https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~russell/