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People vastly overestimate leverage of design and the abilities of companies to actually make emergent behaviors conform to their intentions. Hanlon's razor. If you think the platforms are designed and run by people who are evil masterminds AND incompetent bumblers, think again.
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Thought. Seems likely that @vgr underrates the fact that graph mind is mostly designed/directed by corporations (= emergent AI prior art) to maximize engagement for $$$. In which case Q6 answer is: the graph mind truly does not & cannot care about solving humanistic problems.
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Good point…however, I don't see corporations-as-AI as the result of driven evil actors, or of incompetents really. I see them simply as emergent things-unto-themselves that don't care about people one way or the other.
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That is correct, but not quite what you said. You specifically called out design for maximizing engagement for $ as the *reason* graph minds might not be aligned. That is shaky reasoning. The designers are as subject to emergent dynamics as users, not the author of those dynamics