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Really interesting, and sad. Obviously once you begin to try and replace human thoughts and recollections with electronic algorithms, theres going to be edge cases where it doesnt work as intended. Sometimes those edge cases turn happen to well-known bloggers. Its not reported in the blog post, but Facebook later did the right thing in this case, and the FB staffer responsible for these cold, analytical attempts at simulating human sentimentality reached out to the blogger personally, and accepted the criticism with contrition and an interest in doing better. (Not that I think its possible to truly succeed at what I see as a fundamentally quixotic effort, trying to use computers to replace human faculties rather than extend them.) h/t Jonathan Feldman
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 23:48:57 +0000

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