1/ I think a huge problem right now is that way too many things require a systems-oriented thinking. For facebook, you have shareholder effects interacting with business models and human, social information processing. https://twitter.com/mims/status/1106560518133825537 …
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5/ Like, fuck, R.A. Fisher argued in statistical *defense* of cigarette smoking, claiming it wasn't harmful. I would argue -- I think pretty easily -- that the current socio-political information environment is incomparably more complex.
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6/ Meanwhile, *gestures at everything* Do you think we have a problem? I do. Do you think the people who can affect different outcomes have the same incentives you do? I don't.
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7/ And, fundamentally, users are at must mildly interested in alternatives because they use these products as part of a big role playing game. But, just because people incessantly use a product, doesn't mean it's on balance valuable to them, or to the world.
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