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They will be turned into public utilities. Especially messaging. One country will start. Others will follow. After which majority that doesnt need the levels o

by bxhx7 2y ago

They will be turned into public utilities. Especially messaging. One country will start. Others will follow. After which majority that doesnt need the levels of constant Attention the social media addicted free content manufacturing minority does will leave. And social media will face major issues. Cuz when ever growing Content chases finite non growing eyeballs you cant keep increasing Ad prices every quarter and report profits for ever. This is zuckanomics which is utter shit. Analysts are already seeing those limits being hit but since they havr seen time and again when limits get hit corporate robots like zuck then do layoffs, buy the competition, capture regulators, avoid tax, sell more personal data, inject more ads etc etc they still see scope for parasitic growth. But parasitic growth comes with predictable and unpredictable cost. And they will build with time. Just like Jurassic Park. And we know how that story ends. Human Attention cannot be exploited at population scale or there will be chaos.

JumpCrisscross 2y ago
> will be turned into public utilities. Especially messaging. Honestly, yes. It's working for China. With America doing its thing right now, it makes sense for e.g. the EU and Canada to look at whether handing communications and social media to American companies makes sense.
dkh 2y ago
> Human Attention cannot be exploited at population scale or there will be chaos. Related and very relevant paper: https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/ujvharkk/release/1 https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/ujvharkk/release/1 Attention is being exploited at scale. It's continuing, and evolving, and might soon manifest as other things (like intention). I am not sure your predictions are accurate, but I at least would like a couple of them to be. I have thought a lot about the idea of certain ubiquitous and permeating things like social media as utilities, or at least non-profits with a public oversight and standards/requirements to comply with that are substantial, limiting, and entirely designed around what is good for the public rather than what is good for a business. Not sure this will ever actually happen, as time goes on, I only find more arguments for why it should, not less.
realfeel78 2y ago
No they won't.

by bxhx7 2y ago

JumpCrisscross 2y ago

> will be turned into public utilities. Especially messaging. Honestly, yes. It's working for China. With America doing its thing right now, it makes sense for e.g. the EU and Canada to look at whether handing communications and social media to American companies makes sense.

dkh 2y ago

> Human Attention cannot be exploited at population scale or there will be chaos. Related and very relevant paper: https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/ujvharkk/release/1 https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/ujvharkk/release/1 Attention is being exploited at scale. It's continuing, and evolving, and might soon manifest as other things (like intention). I am not sure your predictions are accurate, but I at least would like a couple of them to be. I have thought a lot about the idea of certain ubiquitous and permeating things like social media as utilities, or at least non-profits with a public oversight and standards/requirements to comply with that are substantial, limiting, and entirely designed around what is good for the public rather than what is good for a business. Not sure this will ever actually happen, as time goes on, I only find more arguments for why it should, not less.

realfeel78 2y ago

No they won't.