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There is No Algorithm for Truth - with Tom Scott
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All the comments and stories posted to Hacker News that reference this video.Not without a certain amount of irony, everybody's parasocial internet friend Tom Scott did a really good segment on the parasocial relationship as part of his talk to the Royal Institution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leX541Dr2rU&t=2215sI swear it's also a short video on its own somewhere, but neither Google nor I can find it today.
> they share with a celebrity. That makes those people related [...] That phenomenon exists, whatever you decide to call it.Some call it this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction
A deep link to a Tom Scott video about it: https://youtu.be/leX541Dr2rU?t=33m40s
What gp (Retric) was trying to say is that the terminology of "social relationships" found in the wiki article : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
... is not talking about parasocial relationships. Yes "parasocial relationships" is a real phenomenon but that's not what Dunbar was referring to when correlating "# of maintained relationships" with the primate neocortex size in his research.
"Source of truth"? What the heck does that mean? Truth for whom?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leX541Dr2rU
Dictionaries aren't for policing language.
They describe how people use language, not the best and only way to use language.
Weird seeing this guy talking about Lego's after recently watching him speak at The Royal Institute about "There is No Algorithm for Truth"[0].
⬐ diplodocusaurI'm not sure what point you are trying to make, that seems completely unrelated. Definitely an interesting talk though.
> Someone who can get pop-culture’s attention needs to do a fucking Ted Talk and explain why this is usually a bad idea.Tom Scott made a good attempt recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leX541Dr2rU
⬐ dredmorbiusA long but good discussion of algorithmically-filtered media platforms, and truth, trust, distortion, and disinformation, by Tom Scott of YouTube fame.