About those bots pushing bad narratives, something strikes me. The other day - for some reason - I read 3 academic papers on fake news, bots etc. All well written and interesting but deep down it's only platitudes: confirmation bias, echo chambers, power law network etc. 1/n
https://twitter.com/mikeharrisNY/status/1396523866994905095
The truth seems to be that no one has a clue how to properly manage this problem. AI far from achieving anything.
My gut feeling (totally speculative) is that we should be more focused on the boundary conditions: where does it stop/start, where do the power laws truncate.
My gut feeling (totally speculative) is that we should be more focused on the boundary conditions: where does it stop/start, where do the power laws truncate.
Instead of looking at nodes/links etc we should look at field equations, basically the Faraday revolution of physics (which gave Maxwell, general relativity, quantum field theory etc). In those settings border conditions are crucial to understand and stop physical processes.
Like I said, totally speculative - but I genuinely feel it's a worthwhile field of research : field equations for social networks
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