arunsupe

Very interesting list of deceptive influences. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for your comments.

I am finding myself getting sucked into the decisiveness and click baiting nowadays. Want to implement some of these counter measures. Here are my thoughts: 1. DDG or searxng for search YouTube only via the search engine (not YouTube's recommendations - worse than tiktok) 2. Reuters for news (no CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, fox, Google, Yahoo) 3. No social media (don't do this much anymore already) 4. Turn off personalization for Google (I use this the most)

This should limit a large percent of external influence. Any other thoughts/suggestions?

I understand your point about “boring”. But, I wonder if I will form my own interests if given more balanced options.

Hehe. You are right. There are many leftist media outlets.

But my point was not to be partisan; just to note that there will be lots of news to cover. Trump is a controversial figure. Every news outlet will profit. Now is not the time to downsize.

Not sure why. Criticizing the republican (especially Trump) government will be hugely profitable - just under 50% of the US population (175M people) is looking for such criticism, and there is no one else to do it. Every day there will be many opportunities to discuss/analyze/criticize/mock/fact-check/challenge.

They should be upsizing, not downsizing. My $0.02.

My question was tongue-in-cheek. I feel the Nobel committee, like every other organization, is also trying to stay relevant and topical. Hard to do this by giving out prizes to old scientists from obscure fields, no matter how important their findings. Hence, a congratulatory prize for the first black president of the USA, a consolation prize for another for losing to Bush, now prizes for computer scientists at the center of the AI fad... An influencer is the logical endpoint for this trend. Other examples of such slipping-down-the-slope: "Time's person of the year" is always a person in the limelight, Oscars favor blockbusters rather than movies with great acting, ditto with music awards, companies that rebranded to the .com fad or the iDevice fad...

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