This is quite possibly the most tone deaf thing I have read since the beginning of the crisis, and I'm on this godforsaken website basically 24/7 https://twitter.com/mims/status/1248982129272401921 …
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Replying to @webdevMason
You're training journos to produce this garbage by QTing it I'm training you to produce these takes by replying here We're in purgatory
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Replying to @mechanicalmonk1 @webdevMason
I don't know if there's meaningful distinction between the author believing or not believing what he's saying, but even if he does, those beliefs are *formed*, moulded by the engagement optimization loop They *will* get more and more insane as long as you QT For the love of god
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Replying to @mechanicalmonk1 @webdevMason
I'm still not convinced that this is true at the level of individual clickbait writers. Though I really don't have a working theory of mind for these people so who knows. It is definitely true at the level of the machine that they (and we) find ourselves embedded within.
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Replying to @schala163 @webdevMason
The brain gives you what you reward it for If you keep a dream journal, you'll remember more dreams If some type of tweets gets you more likes, over time you'll have more ideas for tweets like that If you get higher bonuses for some type of take, you'll think of more of those
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The human mind is incredibly malleable Desires, values, opinions Very very malleable That's our species' biggest strength after all
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I can understand the incentives at the level of the publication, but I don't think this kind of feedback is much more likely to be reinforcing for the author than it would be for me — and I'd be taking a twitter break right now.
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