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This makes me think of prompt engineering as inverse of algorithmic click-baiting. We finally get a shot at revenge on the algorithm 😆 “You made me buy/read/view crap, I’ll make you make/write/paint crap” Now we need to wire up the prompt—SEO feedback loop properly.
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We’re all familiar with algorithmic anxiety — Google Maps randomly redirects your route, Instagram serves an avalanche of irrelevant videos, Spotify pigeonholes you into a single musical genre. My latest @NewYorker piece: newyorker.com/culture/infini
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Ouroboros information economy. Related to what &co dubbed the ouroboros problem looming over ML when models start getting trained on output of models. Fine for RL-learning a closed world like chess/go, but echo-chamber degeneracy for open systems
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I’ve never had algorithmic anxiety though the way Kyle describes it. My sense-making is almost 100% inside out — I get curious about something randomly and then go dumpster diving online, and the algorithms nearly always help rather than hurt.
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I think the trick is to bring genuine new information to the party, in the form of an impulse generated from outside the system you probe. But people who go to systems for primary stimulus *input* — fashion, music, images to see — are in trouble.
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Twitter is the least ouroboros-like among major information sub-economies because the influencers are weakest relative to shitposters. Bad for the company good for me. By contrast, Instagram and tiktok are dominated by people diligently working the algorithm for influence.
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Though there are still a lot more people who come to twitter with a beautiful empty mind to see what’s up that they can fill up on and react to… and people consciously working to feed them… the ouroboros loop has bluecheck producers and people feeding on them to stan/hate
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