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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 31 Oct 2018

    If you optimize for engagement, it turns out you optimize for lies.

    11:32 PM - 31 Oct 2018
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      2. Michael Min‏ @SKMichaelMin 31 Oct 2018
        Replying to @paulg

        How so?

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      3. itamar‏ @itamarok 31 Oct 2018
        Replying to @SKMichaelMin @paulg

        He got you to engage!

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      1. Rajat Suri‏ @rajatsuri 31 Oct 2018
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        Engagement vs revenue?

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      1. Rajendra राजेंद्र  👨🏽‍🔬‏ @rajkashana 31 Oct 2018
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        Can it be reversed? Can people be nudged towards truth and away from lies?

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      1. Joaquín Beltrán  🐇 #GreenZoneAct‏ @joaquinlife 31 Oct 2018
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        How about the counterpoint of @BetoORourke visiting the whole state of Texas with a consistent platform while providing high engagement (assuming optimizing for engagement and high engagement are synonymous here).

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      2. Nick Walsh‏ @TheNickWalsh 31 Oct 2018
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        The first mistake is letting another company define your successful engagement metric 😉

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      3. Andy‏ @Andys_Brain 1 Nov 2018
        Replying to @TheNickWalsh @paulg

        Facebook ads manager loves telling me how low my cost per engagement is! When all I care is how many clicks (and therefore sales) I got to my website from them.

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      1. codyb‏Verified account @codybrown 31 Oct 2018
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        would love to see this quote printed on a large poster and wallpapered to all surfaces of Facebook HQ

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      1. Luke Hartsock‏ @luke_dawgfan 31 Oct 2018
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        It seems there's too many unknowns in that statement to understand what u mean. 1) are u referring to a)startups or b)politics or c)"other?" 2) if a) & engagement is key to profitability, is that more true? 3) what is the counter point? I.e. if you optimize for 'x' you get truth?

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      2. Adam David Long‏ @adamdavidlong 31 Oct 2018
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        1/ Don’t know if it makes you feel any better but Socrates (at least according to Plato) agrees with you “To use rhetoric for good, rhetoric cannot exist alone. It must depend on philosophy to guide its morality, he argues. Socrates therefore believes that

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      3. Adam David Long‏ @adamdavidlong 31 Oct 2018
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        2/ morality is not inherent in rhetoric and that without philosophy, rhetoric is simply used to persuade for personal gain”.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgias_(dialogue) …

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