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Algorithm predicting Trump voters' 'true' voting intentions

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American researchers followed Trump voters, registered their opinions and habits, and found the machine not only predicted how they would vote but also how they should vote 'in accordance with their own true convictions', arguing the machine made better decisions.

2017: 3 talks
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“They predicted how in accordance with their own true convictions they should vote. And again, machine made a better decision.”
33:32 Courage of Hopelessness2017-03-24 · 2:12:13
“The computer's decision for whom you should vote was much more to the left than of the person itself.”
“the machine was right to predict where they voted stupidly against their own interests”

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33:32 Courage of Hopelessness2017-03-24 · 2:12:13
American researchers followed Trump voters, registered their opinions and habits, and found the machine not only predicted how they would vote but also how they should vote 'in accordance with their own true convictions', arguing the machine made better decisions., illustrating narrating self,liberal subjectivity,digital governance
Experiments tracking people's attitudes found that computers predicted they should vote further left than they actually did, because humans let themselves be manipulated by fear of terrorism into conservative votes., illustrating digital control,ideology,cynical ideology
Experimenters registered voters' full intellectual life and then checked against how they actually voted; the machine could accurately predict when voters voted against their own interests., illustrating machine knowledge vs. narrating self,limits of liberal democratic voting,why machine voting might outperform humans