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Social media was a mistake

• hackerlight 3y ago
  "Mistake" implies it could have turned out differently. But it couldn't have, not under our current system of incentives and laissez-faire approach to regulation. Outrage and fake news makes money, regardless of the external costs on social cohesion and democracy, so this is the guaranteed outcome given enough time. What is a mistake is the underlying system of (misaligned) incentives that leads to outcomes like this.