A consequence of centralization of the most important algorithms: random parts of a company's culture affect the world in large ways.

· Bits and Bobs 4/28/25
  • A consequence of centralization of the most important algorithms: random parts of a company's culture affect the world in large ways.
    • For example, little random weather patterns of a company's culture (e.g. "any engineer can veto anything they want," or "everyone will focus on the metrics, not the indirect effects") can have not only emergent outcomes within the company, but also have a significant bias on what manifests for the rest of society, given the company's leverage.
    • Big companies are big enough to have their own internal weather systems; and those weather systems change the conditions for the world.
    • A kind of population bottleneck for our information streams.