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by kopo 8y ago
Slightly off-topic sorry. Does common crawl data contain HN/Quora/Reddit content? And is it possible to extract Question/Answers to support something like "Related Questions" in StackOverflow?
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by kopo 8y ago
And he wrote the "Undoing Project" to explain why this happens. Not his best book but a decent laymen intro for those interested in Behavioral Psychology.
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by kopo 8y ago
The general populations would have to learn about thousands of people then in hundreds of fields. This notion that the general population "needs to know XYZ" is a requirement to keep celeb culture afloat, more than actual value to
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by kopo 8y ago
Reality is not simple to decipher in an environment of info overload. Imagine walking into a huge library. Every book has descriptions of complex problems. Some books have solutions. Some books don't. But you can only read one book at
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by kopo 8y ago
They just need to stick a banner above all of them saying watching this Ad is injurious to your mind. If its up to me that would be on every news website and tv channel too. Along with a live ticker on how much revenue is being generated th
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by kopo 8y ago
Man can you imagine if 1 billion people end up with brain tumors. How would that even get handled? I have no idea how hard tumor surgery is but I am guessing hospitals will have to be turned into large Foxconn type factories or something.
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by kopo 8y ago
I see handwriting has gone to the dogs these days so maybe he is onto something...
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by kopo 8y ago
erm...Osama was rich. His target was Wall St.
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by kopo 8y ago
Good comment. But it is not about "forcing" an outcome. These kind of polarizing sensitive issues are never resolved long term through forcing any issue. At their best these movements make people feel the hurt/injustice and n
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by kopo 8y ago
All they have to do is hide the like count. And humanity can return to normal human communication without a count influencing every behaviour and thought. They can still use the counts behind the scenes to surface popular content and whatev
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by kopo 8y ago
They removed the image from the main article for some reason but I thought this was cool - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Cognitive_Bias_Codex_...
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by kopo 8y ago
You only get to understand what a massive role Google plays in the like/click/view generating ecosystem when you spend time in a modern digital publishing/advertising/marketing firm. It's like watching a huge cattle
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by kopo 8y ago
That's what happens when they are conditioned to produce content that maximizes view/click counts. Who created that incentive? Google did.
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by kopo 8y ago
We seem to have moved from one person (Snowden type) dissent of institutional bullshit to groups standing up. The current bunch of leaders are great at keeping the ship on course to well known destinations (scale at all costs/maximize
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by kopo 8y ago
Good point and well put. These issues were being raised as far back as 2005-6 when debates were raging about whether likes/clicks/views and other "easy to collect" numbers were the right proxies for peoples needs and fee
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by kopo 8y ago
Yuval Harari keeps saying this, that we live in a time where the systems know our weaknesses better then we know them ourselves.
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by kopo 8y ago
It is addictive. But atleast they have the maxvisit, minaway, delay settings available to provide some minimal way to reduce the pull. Social networks need to have such tooling, that should automatically nudge people to take it easy when he
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by kopo 8y ago
Here is one way WhatsApp efffects mothers - https://scroll.in/magazine/834036/indian-schools-are-using-w... When the thinking is do whatever it takes to scale, the unintended effects are too numerous for people to
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by kopo 8y ago
hmmm...almost like a therapist I suppose.
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by kopo 8y ago
Interesting point. Thanks!
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by kopo 8y ago
Reminds me. Few months ago a friend was wrestling with one of those big life changing decisions everyone faces sometime or the other. He spent a whole lot of time meticulously analysing pros and cons, but just couldn't decide one way o
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by kopo 8y ago
For every dollar passive investors produce in the market active investors produce 22. Who do you think is paid more attention too?
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by kopo 8y ago
Good to see. Also nice to watch Facebook and Twitter and Youtube employees being called out for what they have enabled. If you are smart enough to get a job anywhere, why even work to keep these toxic machines propped up? Time to bail befo
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by kopo 8y ago
These are "Passive" investors. Wall Street doesn't care about them. Reality reflects it.
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by kopo 8y ago
Wall Street money is just the money of 1%. The 1% need to get on board.
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by kopo 8y ago
This is true in the sense that there is no nice safe straight path up a hard to climb mountain. There are going to be ups and downs. And yes we are fucking things up right now, because exploiting each other is easier than helping each other
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by kopo 8y ago
Not the first time someone has bought it up on a Google stage Tim Wu, Yuval Harari, Clay Shirky...
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by kopo 8y ago
I am going to remember your going camping metaphor :) Minus mum and dad. This is the period where everyone figures out how to get along. Fingers crossed!
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by kopo 8y ago
It's not about being stable but the pressure on everyone to keep the fully connected network stable that matters. Wrote up a longer comment here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18271594
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by kopo 8y ago
Yes there are very good reasons for hierarchy. Stability of the group being the main one (i.e. preventing it from splintering). Who ever is at the top of the hierarchy is expected to resolve the battles/differences unfolding at the low

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