No Mercy / No Malice
The end result is a world where the ability for anyone to post any idea has, paradoxically, meant far greater mass adoption of popular ideas and far more effective suppression of “bad” ideas. That is invigorating when one feels the dominant idea is righteous; it seems reasonable to worry about the potential of said sense of righteousness overwhelmi... See more
stratechery.com • The Current Thing – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
X has turned into a bullhorn for “anti-woke” sentiments used to boost Musk’s political messaging, Meta has abandoned its fact checking in deference to possible Trump retribution against the Zuckerberg empire; Starlink, TikTok, and Nvidia/TSCM are becoming geopolitical bargaining chips in nativist industrial trade wars; Network States are gaining po
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You and the Algorithm: It Takes Two to Tango | by Nick Clegg | Mar, 2021 | Medium
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Destructive cherry-picking spreads fear and pessimism, and over the past 20 years, it’s been steadily on the rise.25 In political media, this can have especially dangerous consequences. Geographic sorting means many people barely spend time with anyone on the other political side, so the only information they have on what those people are like come
... See moreTim Urban • What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies
After all, it is public opinion that social media exploits, and public opinion that has no patience for ambiguity, context, or breaks with tradition.