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If anything, the substack incentives are even worse. At least radicalizing was a second-order effect of Google/FB incentives. It's damn close to the first-order
by throwawaygh 5y ago
If anything, the substack incentives are even worse. At least radicalizing was a second-order effect of Google/FB incentives. It's damn close to the first-order optimization objective for a company that depends on getting people so worked up that they'll pay to join a mailing list. (Who pays to join a mailing list?! never in my life....) Answer: the Most True Believers.
- yakireev 5y ago> Who pays to join a mailing list?! Every newspaper subscriber over the course of history.
- throwawaygh 5y agoThat’s not the same. It’s more analogous to subscribing to only one particular column.