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All they did was point out humans have trended towards tribalism since… forever. Social media has not remade our genome.

• alganet 2y ago
  On the contrary. Genetic and archeological evidence portrays humans as intermixing since the very beginning. A survey by an online magazine is far, far from any evidence. Since it did not disclosed the methods, it is probably editorial. The article is a cloaked ad for social AI that hooks on nostalgia for old internet times. It's useless. Edit. They actually disclose it is an editorial ad: > was commissioned by Verge editorial leadership, with surveys from Two Cents Insights. The Vox Media Insights and Research team surveyed over 2,000 US adults representing the US population in December 2024. Two Cents Insights is a boutique research agency that partners with brands and digital platforms to transform research into actionable insights. Its expertise lies at the intersection of consumer needs and business goals, fueling differentiated go-to-market strategies and customer-centric product development.
• ben_w 1y ago
  The algorithm of business development in the web era is A/B testing (and its cousin, multivariate testing). It is a still genetic algorithm, even though the "genome" of a website is not measured by base pairs of nucleic acids. And the algorithm is used to optimise the consumption of our mental resources — our attention is what it "metabolises" into money.