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by biftek 756 days ago
Sounds good in theory but how many people are actually qualified to interpret those algorithms? Average Joe on facebook is going to believe it does what ever Bob tells him it does.
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> Sounds good in theory but how many people are actually qualified to interpret those algorithms?

Enough researchers, at enough institutions with sufficiently diverse motives, that if multiple of them identify a problem and agree about it, Joe can make a reasonably confident assessment that there's probably something there.