Friday, 3 September 2021

Improve the News

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From an OR

[This] is a site established by Max Tegmark an MIT professor as his ‘covid’ project. An AI engine in the background scours the news and assigns various weightings so you can adjust what you want to see. Very cool.

I’m trying it with the Slider set at default, which is nicely centrist. You can skew it Left or skew it Right, but why not be blandly centrist? 

Interesting isn’t it? Centrism ought to be the best for most. But political parties rarely win by being centrist. And even authoritarian states are most often far left or far right. Is that an original sin of humankind?