{"id":7515,"date":"2024-10-15T13:02:18","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T12:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=7515"},"modified":"2024-10-15T13:02:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T12:02:20","slug":"discussion-on-algorithms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2024\/10\/15\/discussion-on-algorithms\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion on Algorithms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">I&#8217;ve started reading <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6FkuJZwBl9\">Yuval Noah Harari<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0<em>Nexus<\/em>, so I <\/span>was interested in listening to this BBC Radio 4 \u2018Start the Week&#8217; programme, which incorporated critical perspectives of the book (among other things).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An interesting AI \/ algorithm discussion \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCRadio4?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BBCRadio4<\/a>\u2069 &#8211; recommended. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oxQuVsiCv7\">https:\/\/t.co\/oxQuVsiCv7<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Gary Bunt (@garybunt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/garybunt\/status\/1845877366704288116?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And there is another discussion here with Emily Maitlis:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;The truth is rare, fantasy and lies are cheap. If we flood the world with information, the truth will sink to the bottom and not rise to the top.&quot;<br><br>How do we navigate a world rife with misinformation?<br><br>Author of Nexus <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/harari_yuval?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@harari_yuval<\/a> talks to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maitlis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@maitlis<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kfLFvtsK7B\">pic.twitter.com\/kfLFvtsK7B<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The News Agents (@TheNewsAgents) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheNewsAgents\/status\/1844381119564874167?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 10, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Separately, here&#8217;s a piece on Harari&#8217;s approaches towards the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/24\/yuval-noah-harari-backs-critique-of-leftist-indifference-to-hamas-atrocities\">Israel-Gaza crisis<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve started reading Yuval Noah Harari&#8216;s\u00a0Nexus, so I was interested in listening to this BBC Radio 4 \u2018Start the Week&#8217; programme, which incorporated critical perspectives of the book (among other things). And there is another discussion here with Emily Maitlis: Separately, here&#8217;s a piece on Harari&#8217;s approaches towards the Israel-Gaza crisis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,4,486],"tags":[85,487,89],"class_list":["post-7515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-books","category-disinformation","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-disinformation","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7516,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7515\/revisions\/7516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}