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Mark: I understand why people would be concerned about ads as a business model. But does getting people angry and serving them provocative content make them more likely to use Facebook services over the long term? I don't think so. We are not building this for the next quarter, we want to build this for the decades to come. It's too simplistic to s... See more

The more a file is shared and seen online, the more cultural value it accrues. Consider the mass production of posters and t-shirts of Warhol imagery. With increase in notoriety, the concept of owning the canonical work becomes more thrilling, and more a marker of social status.

In a world where everyone benefits from capitalism as an owner, the collective focus will be on making the world “more good” instead of “less bad.” These approaches are more different than they seem, and society does much better when it focuses on the former. Simply put, more good means optimizing for making the pie as large as possible, and less b... See more

If abundance is the cause, commoditization is the effect.

It is unclear what proportion of the value of an upvote is quality vs. everything else. Finding a better way to extract quality from upvotes will be an important problem to work on moving forward.