alt Hacker News>>Google could have been an advertising company with a search engine. I'm glad they aren't.
>They kind of are though?
Splitting[1] is a psychological phenomena that you'll find often once you learn to recognize it. Google can both be doing great research, and run a significant influence operation.
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financetechbro • yesterday at 9:38 PM
Feels like everything falls under this psychological phenomena nowadays
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This antinomical understanding (contradictory opposites that are both true) has its origins in Kant's work[0], which was of course picked up by Freud, consciously or not.
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kant%27s_antinomies