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0 pointsrawtxapp5y ago0 comments

If you look at it from the perspective that ad-clicking has funded the biggest information retrieval system and the biggest human connection platform, yes it was overall socially beneficial.

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zepto5y ago

A counterfactual is that those two things would have happened anyway, and the ad-funded model has deeply corrupted both of them.

rawtxappOP5y ago

I don't think there's world with these counterfactuals in place, do you have any proof?

zepto5y ago

That’s not a meaningful way to discuss counterfactuals.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterfactual_conditional

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zepto5y ago

A counterfactual is that those two things would have happened anyway, and the ad-funded model has deeply corrupted both of them.

rawtxappOP5y ago

I don't think there's world with these counterfactuals in place, do you have any proof?

zepto5y ago

That’s not a meaningful way to discuss counterfactuals.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterfactual_conditional

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