> This is how Facebook started. That should have been the first clue that this was a bad idea. Nevertheless, the author pressed on with the bad ideas. They ev

> This is how Facebook started. That should have been the first clue that this was a bad idea. Nevertheless, the author pressed on with the bad ideas. They even mention how they watched "The Social Network", a biopic about a very damaged narcissist who is oblivious and/or indifferent to how he hurts people. And the author sees this as something to repeat! It' > A society unable to tolerate deviance from the norm A metric "deviates from the norm". The phrase you're looking for is "violation of norms". [0] > is a society that will fail to adapt to inevitable changes to the norm. And the norms are changing. They don't seem to be. There seems to be consensus in the comments that the author's behavior was distasteful and violated norms. Unfortunately, you can't explain away literally anything anybody does wrong simply by claiming they were only "deviating from the norm", and that should be accepted no matter what, for the sake of building adaptivity. A society which accepts anything, including hurting innocent kids, is a society which will quickly collapse. 0 – https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/norm-violation https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/norm-vi...