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by glial 6y ago
Great. To those ringing their hands about the death of capitalism they fear will follow: if capitalism is premised on buying things you don’t need, destroying the planet in the process, maybe we can do better?
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by glial 6y ago
There will always be trolls. What the ads fund are armies of cognitive scientists making you addicted in the name of “engagement” aka ad revenue, consequences be damned.
543.
by glial 6y ago
That last one is easy, at least: ban ad-driven social media as a business model.
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by glial 6y ago
His underlying assumption that human life is the only life that has value is staggeringly self-centered and depressing.
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by glial 6y ago
Thanks for updating and providing more info!
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by glial 6y ago
“Likes” are just one technique among many for increasing engagement/addiction. The core problem is the ad-based business model, that incentivizes companies to make addictive products.
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by glial 6y ago
Lots of ferns maybe?
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by glial 6y ago
I wish people downvoting you would explain why. Your comment seems eminently reasonable to me, but there are no replies to it.
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by glial 6y ago
Even worse, advertising incentivizes business models whose primary goal is to create addictive behavior, because the side effect is that you see more ads. So, for example, social media companies will do anything they can to increase “engage
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by glial 6y ago
First a watch, now a neural network. Nothing new under the sun. > All that is needed is to find a physical phenomenon which cannot be described by neural networks. But neural networks are universal function approximations... Does this of
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by glial 6y ago
Aristotle is nothing if not astute. If you’d like more, I highly recommend Nicomachean Ethics.
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by glial 6y ago
Economics only rewards immoral behavior if we let it. We should properly factor negative externalities into prices.
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by glial 6y ago
Style aside, these results are way way better quality than the typical curated Twitter feed. > BlueSpaceCanaryTwitter "malloc" comes from the Latin "mal", meaning "bad" or "evil", and the abbrevia
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by glial 6y ago
> certain products, while not being economically viable, can be socially necessary, so alternative models need to be found. News obviously falls in this category, similarly to public transport, healthcare and education Totally agree. New
555.
by glial 6y ago
Maybe if they were better, people would pay for them. That’s how the market is supposed to work.
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by glial 6y ago
Business models based on advertising revenue are ruining the world.
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by glial 6y ago
Tiktok users embarrassed him in Tulsa.
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by glial 6y ago
They named their paper book replacement devices using fire terminology...
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by glial 6y ago
Perhaps not unintentional?
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by glial 6y ago
Ach, thanks for clarifying.
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by glial 6y ago
“ We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some
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by glial 6y ago
> fine tuned every week when new data came in Yeah, that’s what you’re supposed to do - use new evidence to update your beliefs.
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by glial 6y ago
“Escape from Freedom” by Erich Fromm is a thoughtful historical take, written in the 1930s.
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by glial 6y ago
I’m not totally convinced that more regulation is needed in this case. It might be that fewer would be beneficial, because existing regulations might effectively be regulatory capture. I don’t know enough to know, but what regulations are
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by glial 6y ago
I've heard "trees don't grow to the sky."
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by glial 6y ago
My limited understanding is that volcanoes in Hawaii are the exception rather than the rule. The rule is that they happen where plates converge: https://www.britannica.com/place/Ring-of-Fire
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by glial 6y ago
> "topic-focused, outrage-free" curation strategy In the old days this work was done by an editor and published in a periodical fashion. My recurring quip about social media is that it’s helping us collectively realize the val
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by glial 6y ago
This is what happens when you send 'stimulus checks' to a bunch of people with credit card debt: > This was the steepest decline in card balances seen in the history of the data.
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by glial 6y ago
Doesn’t make it wise.
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by glial 6y ago
An utterly depressing and profoundly written essay. Ed Yong deserves a prize. > The pandemic has been both tragedy and teacher. Its very etymology offers a clue about what is at stake in the greatest challenges of the future, and what is

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