Automatic Content Selection

Content on the internet should be permanent, available, and addressable until the original author of the content chooses to remove it. Automatic Content Selection by Stephen Wolfram

• Even if you don’t explicitly know something (say about someone), it can almost always be statistically deduced if there’s enough other related data available
• Even given every detail of a program, it can be arbitrarily hard to predict what it will or won’t do
• For a well-optimized computation, there’s not likely to be a human-understandable narrative about how it works inside
• There’s no finite set of principles that can completely define any reasonable, practical system of ethics

Stephen Wolfram suggests two options to solve this problem: 1) serve algorithmically ranked content, but allow users to choose the final ranker and 2) allow users to choose constraints on what they want to see, and then use a universal ranker.