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Information networks should have more 'serendipity' filters that take you outside the things you normally see. Follow graphs and interest graphs are great - but they are far more vulnerably to groupthink, tunnel vision, and filter bubbles.
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Media sites like Reddit, Twitter, and HackerNews are entropic, optimized for novelty, and “random”: the user is pulled into several different directions that limit their ability to progress at any one thing
Balaji S. Srinivasan • Legacy Media Is Lying To You - Balaji Srinivasan | Modern Wisdom Podcast 519
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Social media, search, spam, recommendations — when faced with an abundance of information, we often find ourselves needing to separate wheat from the chaff. Many systems reach for stars, hearts, upvotes, and downvotes as quick fixes for user-generated quality signals. But what if we just used links?
Subconscious • All you need is links
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How might you help people find new things on the internet? How might you give new things on the internet a meaningful audition, without turning it all into a game that can (and will) be hacked and mastered?
Robin Sloan • A Year of New Avenues
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Filters should have inbuilt “serendipity” functionality Have you ever chosen “random” when presented with a choice of things to look at, to listen to, to read, to follow? It’s a simple insurance policy to take out in order to avoid digital bigotry or heretical thinking or tunnel vision or herd instinct or groupthink or whichever other buzzphrase a ... See more
JP Rangaswami • Filtering: Seven Principles
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