Good morning!
If you're thinking about, building, or concerned by the effects of social media, this post talks about the process that I think induces the most harm.
Conversation
It's very long.
And, the audience is not general.
(But, I hope anyone used to thinking in probablistic terms can understand it. If not, then I failed to some degree.)
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The TL;DR:
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Discussion on HN (upvote if you read and enjoy) here (if it gets rolling):
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=265804
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h/t and for database animals. and for (obliquely) making me feel like I should defend myself from accusations of priming effects.
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I guess cc: too because now two people have said this is kinda like quantitive internet of beefs,
ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/16/the
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Replying to
I’ll admit I gave up immediately after eyeballing, before even figuring out what it was about. There wasn’t enough obvious incentive to try to follow the math.

