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Those results, like i guess i dont want google to be an arbiter of truth. i feel like theres a transparency now that when i google something on google i understand theres an algorithm that basically is crunching popularity in some way. and im fine with that. and im fine understanding that maybe one of the results for barack obama nationality is hes kenyan, because theres a lot of people who believe that amazingly. but i dont need them to be my arbiter of truth. >> interestingly, in some sense th...

>> i feel like were in pretty deep philosophical ground here. do we trust an algorithm to determine truth in abstract sense? >> its tricky. we should emphasize that the kinds of facts that they have in their repository are what we would, i think we would think of as simple facts. barack obamas nationality, he was born in the united states. thats a very simple fact. its not -- theres a scientific consensus although theres remaining uncertainty, global warming is caused by humans. its not nuanced ...