He’s saying competition led to more addicting / engaging products from all of the companies in the space. Breaking up one of those companies doesn’t change the underlying incentives or address the negative externalities of hyper-optimizing for engagement
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Replying to @rsg @ezraklein
That’s an argument against Vox being capable of doing journalism. Competition doesn’t fix norms, but it certainly doesn’t make the problem worse, and may make that an axis of competition. See again, news.
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I mean. I personally like Vox. But I think looking at the news industry as a whole, there is a force from the competition for attention that pushes news orgs to be more sensationalist and 140-280 character headlines. Soooo...
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Replying to @JasonKAlmeida @pt and
While I might find issue with the overall point of the article, I do agree with the notion that the digital economy is in an attention competition that pushes platforms, publishers, and users to go for not-necessarily-positive goals.
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Clarification: *currently in an attention completion - I’m not convinced this was a must-happen outcome, I think it was more an outcome of the metrics we chose to optimize for *pushes MANY (not all) platforms, publishers, and users - some have found varying business models
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Yep. I think many platforms would welcome an end to the engagement arms race if it were fairly dissolved via regulation. Possibly even Facebook. Journalists don’t aspire to write clickbait. Social product designers don’t generally want to design for addiction
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Right, it’s extremely challenging to come up with fair/narrow regulation here Doesn’t mean the negatives of this race to the bottom of the brainstem aren’t real The fuzziness & deep-rooted nature of the problem means we’re unlikely to solve it. It’s probably the new normal
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I do think it is possible for the industry to self-regulate to a meaningful degree here. Facebook took a huge step in the right direction with the feed changes from last January. Shifting News Feed back towards friends & family content avoids negative political externalities
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Yes, but it takes some batshit cage rattling with the threat of bad regulation for them to meaningfully self-regulate somewhat.
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I don't think it's explicitly FSM stuff. The threat of antitrust that makes them work more proactively on seemingly unrelated issues of privacy, cybersecurity, violent speech.
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