The creation of micro-segmented online communities filled ever more extreme and provocative content is not an intended goal of the social media companies, but rather an *emergent effect* of social media algorithms optimized to capture as much user attention as possible.
there are probably numerous optima satisfying the maximsation problem, why is it that we end up stuck in the most socially destructive one?
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That's confirmation bias and the law of large numbers. You just haven't noticed all of the other non-socially destructive, yet still frothy, communities of Deaf Veteran Philatelists for Christ or whatever.
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but that's my point - why are we stuck at these optima *across the board*?
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