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It is three phases 1) Gain ability to broadcast whatever is top of mind with zero friction 2) The most radical 10% also gain ability to broadcast whatever is top of mind 3) And what is top of mind for them is making it high friction for you to broadcast whatever is top of mindhttps://twitter.com/paulg/status/1278257317402808320 …
It's the most bizarre phenomenon, isn't it? Making speech easier ends up decreasing freedom of speech for the reasonable, because it gives the unreasonable a way to attack them. Obvious in retrospect, but I wouldn't have predicted it.
Noisy systems require more error-correction. Competition for the same bandwidth means that eventually it's all apologies and no signal.
It’s not driven by “making speech easier” but by incentives towards virality and context collapse. @vgr’s “Internet of Beefs” is probably the best incentives breakdown.
We can make an Internet where speech is easy, context is easy, and incentives are different.
Yup, this thread has the meta-error that Alan Kay points out that the present, when viewed from the past, was one of many possible futures. Re: social media, we drew a bad hand. In part by what you mention, but the centralization of control by two people is the critical flaw.
It is well described by Taleb. Intolerant stubborn minority rules.
There's a reason why we severely restricted the free speech of radical political beliefs until the Supreme Court de facto rewrote the Bill of Rights in the 1950s & 60s. That wasn't an abberation, that was how it was practiced 1776-1950 because this was understood.
For many generations it would have been obvious that such speech needed to be restricted. Just as we take it for granted today that "freedom" doesn't include freedom to murder.
Amplitude is highest with extreme positions. Nuanced positions are boring except for the few outliers. ‘Gen pop loves drama’. Which is reflected in all of tv, advertising, magazines, YouTube etc. Negativity bias > availability bias > confirmation bias, repeat.
Maybe that’s temporary though. Part of the newfound sense of freedom. Like a young democracy coming out of a dictatorship, if you will.
And unreasonable speech is, in general, more engaging than reasonable speech. When you have algorithms that bias strongly in favor of engagement, you empower the most unreasonable.
I don't think it's the algorithms, I think it's the lack of a dislike button. It's easier to agree with a like than it is to disagree with a reply. Any post with enough energy behind it has nothing to slow it down.
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