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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2/ Everyone wants an easy to grok, identifiable, and obvious harmful antagonistic mechanism that they can "declare war on" or something. But, that doesn't really exist.
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3/ That's why so many critiques are easy to counter. E.g., "Facebook is addictive." "Well, actually, no -- not in the way we understand addiction."
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4/ It really is like the new big tobacco problem, in that the time necessary for building a scientific consensus moves so much s l o w e r than the induced damage does.
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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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