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Incentives to create content change when there are clear economic opportunities

Perhaps the demise of traditional retail and media can be explained by the Internet offering better alternatives for curating your own community of like-minded people/products and removing most of the friction around connecting.

The repugnant conclusion of never-ending well-being arbitrage: everyone ends up with a life that is just barely above the subsistence level. Effective altruism wants to arbitrage all the extra happiness away and fairly distribute it amongst the global population.

Which is why we are seeing a huge increase in people camping, renting or buying RVs (the industry has seen an 1800% increase!!!), and visiting national parks. So if you own a bit of extra land — a farm, a ranch, a non-profit with land — there is a very real economic opportunity to turn that land into useable campsites and outdoor travel... See more

MrBeast on how he likes to work: “Wake up, obsess over something, go to bed. Wake up, obsess, go to bed. Like every second of the day until I have a mental breakdown and burn out and then I take a day off or maybe a day and a half and then go right back to it.”

There have been hundreds of investigative reports, technical analysis, research whitepapers, statistical studies, PhD dissertations, and more about how TikTok’s secretive recommendation algorithm works. TikTok’s recommendation system is without a doubt incredibly complex and impressive, but so too are the recommenders that Facebook, Instagram, and... See more