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A product which does things that users don't like "for their own good" isn't a product that is going to attract as many users as one that "does stuff the users
by etchalon 3y ago
A product which does things that users don't like "for their own good" isn't a product that is going to attract as many users as one that "does stuff the users like".
- passion__desire 3y agoThe problem isn't nuanced debate isn't happening on the platform which will benefit everyone but metrics like "likes" which lead to gaming the metrics and race to the bottom. Facebook realized it too late. It is possible for people to benefit from listening to both sides and come out better informed but it is totally impossible to resurface those with primitive metrics like "likes". Hopefully LLMs will allow us to do that better. There should be some top-down handcrafting to steer in better directions. Apparently our brain has both top-down and bottom-up processes which meet at the middle to figure out ground truth.