If your product is based on appealing to “better” natures of people along a dimension (say civility, intelligence) you’ll attract virtue signaling clueless types along that dimension, adversely select for hypocrites along that dimension, or outright bad actors good at faking it.
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Nobody ever went bankrupt underestimating the [insert virtue here ____] of the masses. The job of good tech is not to make people good, but to use technical ingenuity to make average people act as though they are good, even if for the “wrong” reasons by your ethics
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For those in the cheap seats unfamiliar with the “worse is better” concept https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better …
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Hmm. Yet more fodder for
#mediocrity here. I’m definitely the most mediocre champion of mediocrity, unlike that guy who ironically wrote a reportedly excellent book about it.Show this thread -
Aside, as you might guess, I vastly prefer inhabiting environments designed with average humans, rather than virtuous ones, in mind. Environments of exaltation: temples, churches, better-twitter type concepts, etc leave me cold. They’re religious spaces with sacred architecture.
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I'd specify that "worse is better" with spectator sport short term / fleeting social dynamics (which is the experience for most of twitter) and fails terribly for intimate social dynamics.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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> “Worse is better” for social dynamics. This is possibly the most depressing phrase I've heard this week.
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I was just re-reading your essay on escaped realities, and twitter definitely seems like a crashed reality
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like in some ways the appeal of twitter as an ‘escape’ is that it’s more messy and worse (more real?) than other digitally mediated alternate realities
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