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by op03 5y ago
Occasional source of havoc - yes. Permanent source of havoc - no. Vaccinations have ramped up in ways no one has every seen in history. And lots of lessons were learnt during the first few waves from all the blundering that happened. Nothi
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by op03 5y ago
Really interesting...and big list...quite ambitious. You should get to work! :) If you are interested in the cooperation vs confrontation tradeoff maybe check out Robert Axelrods games - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th
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by op03 5y ago
In the info tsunami conditions we live in, what news orgs think or push constantly get diluted by literally thousand other sources every second. They have great faith in their ability to capture the attention of the herd, but since everyone
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by op03 5y ago
The AP's NORC Center for Public Affairs Research recent report on Trust in American Media shows no one gives a fig what the NYT thinks, especially what its critical of - https://apnorc.org/projects/a-new-way-of-loo
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by op03 5y ago
That depends on your job title and where it falls on the explore-exploit spectrum. If your job is to keep the gold mine running all your underlings are working on the mine. If they go do something else its a waste of your time and resources
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by op03 5y ago
erm...how many colonies did Norway have?
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by op03 5y ago
At this point, sounds more like both sides are just hell bent on hurting each other. With the US producing Leaders all well trained to chase Likes/Followers ie Pander to their Fan clubs, de-escalation is not possible in such an environ
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by op03 5y ago
Good idea really. Did you work out what type of actions? Made me think of Gregory Batesons schismogenesis work. According to his theory the divisions are sort of almost a given within groups, but they don't lead to schism/conflict
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by op03 5y ago
Missing is Verizon's reaction. On the one hand, Eric Schmidt says the Telcos have overbid in the 5G auction and don't have cash left to roll out new networks without price rise, and on the other hand he pushes price caps. If they
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by op03 5y ago
> what happens next? I want to see civ games where social media dynamics enter the picture. Echo chambers, polarisation, pandering, where different unit types cops, military, city workers, journos, scientists etc start chasing Likes and
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by op03 5y ago
Outcomes are the only things that matter. As your good man Herbert Simon showed, we are chimps with 6 inch brains dealing with many a problem that require slightly to hugely more than that. When the upper bound of Rationality gets hit all c
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by op03 6y ago
The Buddha was pretty much a queen.
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by op03 6y ago
Corruption is good for society, especially to keep the fire burning under the ass of the "great and the good". Gandhi had to get kicked of a train to wake up. Otherwise he was perfectly satisfied wandering about being a mediocre
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by op03 6y ago
If this was true why do people send kids to school? They can drop them off at the library and let them transform themselves by themselves. Any half baked library has enough info to keep you occupied on any subject you want for your entire l
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by op03 6y ago
Wont happen. All the politicians world over have been trained like Pavlovs dogs to chase Likes as a route to power. So its like asking addicts to not just give up their drugs but to take down the cartels. The time to shutdown Facebook has p
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by op03 6y ago
Next up Taiwan.
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by op03 6y ago
We dont do anything about it, in the same sense second graders dont have to do anything about tenth grade problems. Social Media, HN included, does a fine job of presenting tenth grade problems to second graders everyday. As if that isnt mi
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by op03 6y ago
This modern red gaurd you worry about is built on top of what social media enables, amplifies and rewards. Two points worth making about "revolutions" built on top of social media - 1. They dont generate outcomes. We now have 15
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by op03 6y ago
Its not inappropriate. They know they are dealing with characters in the US govt who have a track record of cooking up stories about Aluminium tubes and WMDs to push the herd in whatever direction they want.
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by op03 6y ago
Cause the Taliban showed you dont need F16s and AI.
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by op03 6y ago
Its been in decline ever since outsourcing began. Inevitable in a connected world. Time to move on. Whats the Chinese/Indian equivalent of HN?
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by op03 6y ago
More like there are no useful transformational projects that everyone agrees on. So different groups do what they got to do. Just try an experiment with you own family. Find the richest members and get them to buy into "useful transfor
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by op03 6y ago
Stories and experiences are not overly interesting. Diversity in drive/motivation is. Walk into New York UN offices and a neverending list of stories and experiences will flow. But the org is feckless because its selects for, over time
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by op03 6y ago
This is all superficial diversity. The problem with these types of incentives is you attract ppl who care about these types of incentives. Then you send them up the ladder and after 10-20 years they are still motivated by what freebies the
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by op03 6y ago
You are wondering about the wrong thing. Companies/Orgs are not designed to pull this type of stuff off. And thats the end of the story right there. Society has developed other mechanisms precisely because orgs are dumb as shit at hand
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by op03 6y ago
The reward systems and algos underlying Content are constantly changing and evolving, as their flaws/costs at scale get tallied up. So what politicians get propped up by these systems will change too.
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by op03 6y ago
Jackass is high art. As high as it can get. It reminds the herd, just as Van Gogh and Picasso did- no one has done this before, but guess what, you bunch of obedient cattle, you can! What 'this' is doesnt matter. What matters is,
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by op03 6y ago
When it comes to automation, the fact that gets missed is that the robots are the execs. "Corporate culture" is just another phrase for programming people. Some Phils in Accounting will be fine. For 2 reasons 1- He can fix his own
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by op03 6y ago
What you are really saying is you dont know how to market an alternate approach. So hopefully grandma or someone else shows up and does the work right? I am fine with Signal. They arent Facebook. And they arent Russians. Anyone who has an a
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by op03 6y ago
No need to be confused or galled. Info asymmetry in society will keep growing as Info keeps growing. On the other hand that 6 inch chimp brain we have, has no way to keep up no matter what tech is produced within our lifetimes. So only thin

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