Maven Is a New Social Network That Eliminates Followers—and Hopefully Stress

In most areas of computing, programmers write code or train an AI model to achieve specific objectives, such as driving a car without crashing or generating humanlike text. Stanley creates systems that instead evolve, seeking novelty for its own sake. These systems sometimes discover stepping stones toward solutions that couldn’t be achieved via a ... See more

The app also has a serendipity slider from “Only show my selected interests” to “Show me everything.”

most social networks suffer from the weight of objectives