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  Alper Cugun highlighted

  Knowing what kinds of appeals specific people respond to gives you power to manipulate them on an individual basis

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  To personalize well, you have to have the right idea of what represents a person

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  It’s not just that experts are vulnerable to confirmation bias—it’s that they’re especially vulnerable to it.

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  First, the filter bubble surrounds us with ideas with which we’re already familiar (and already agree), making us overconfident in our mental frameworks. Second, it removes from our environment some of the key prompts that make us want to learn.

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  They can upset the delicate cognitive balance that helps us make good decisions and come up with new ideas.

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  we have to realize that our idea of what’s real often comes to us secondhand and in a distorted form—edited, manipulated, and filtered through media, other human beings, and the many distorting elements of the human mind.

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  But at the moment, we’re trading a system with a defined and well-debated sense of its civic responsibilities and roles for one with no sense of ethics.

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  but it’s still important to know about.

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    Alper Cugun

    Really? Even if you take a zero news approach to life?

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  A spicy headline will win over a more trusted news source any day.

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  If the power to shape news rests in the hands of bits of code, not professional human editors, is the code up to the task?

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  If news matters, newspapers matter, because their journalists write most of it.

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    Alper Cugun

    Doubtful leap of faith.

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  Businesses are realizing that it’s profitable to share data.

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  The fight between Google and Facebook hinges on which can achieve lock-in for the most users.

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    Alper Cugun

    bs

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  To provide relevance, personalization algorithms need data. But the more data there is, the more sophisticated the filters must become to organize it.

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  If Google sees that I log on first from New York, then from San Francisco, then from New York again, it knows I’m a bicoastal traveler and can adjust its results accordingly.

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    Alper Cugun

    Gross undermathematized misrepresentation.

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  Everybody expected the Internet to be a huge source of bridging capital.

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    Alper Cugun

    He quotes Tom Friedman as ‘everybody’.

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  you hand large companies an enormous amount of data about your daily life—much of which you might not trust friends with.

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    Tendentious.

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  At best, if a company knows which articles you read or what mood you’re in, it can serve up ads related to your interests. But at worst, it can make decisions on that basis that negatively affect your life.

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  legal scholar Cass Sunstein wrote a smart and provocative book on the topic in 2000

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    Alper Cugun

    Conveniently forget to mention the title of the book you stole most of your ideas from.

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  what blogger and media analyst Steve Rubel calls the attention crash

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  In an age when shared information is the bedrock of shared experience, the filter bubble is a centrifugal force, pulling us apart.

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  The new Internet doesn’t just know you’re a dog; it knows your breed and wants to sell you a bowl of premium kibble.

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  And yet the era of civic connection I dreamed about hasn’t come.

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    Alper Cugun

    I guess this book is going to be thr channeling of his own disillusions…

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