1/ A heuristic that I find myself using more often Does [System] prescribe monocropping? If yes, be skeptical!
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2/ I generally mean this in an abstract way. Examples: Modern economics -- at least when projected onto politics -- seems to reduce to monocropping by optimization over a single objective function: maximize GDP.
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3/ For social media and other systems allocate, there is superficial variety. But borrowing from
@SwiftOnSecurity, it's all corn. Behind different UI's, the objective function is the same (and at odds with user interests): maximize commoditized attention for resale.1 reply 1 retweet 8 likesShow this thread
*systems that allocate attention
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