Is engagement maxing an apex predator of consumer software?
- Is engagement maxing an apex predator of consumer software?
- I believe there can be another way.
- There must be, in an era of AI.
- Otherwise it could create a dangerous situation in society.
From other episodes
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- What you want to want and what you want must be disjoint to some degree, they can't be perfectly aligned.2025-06-23
- In the past I've enumerated three humanity-denying movements in the past around AI:2025-06-16
- Ranking systems almost never expose the "knobs" to users.2025-06-16
- Social media engagement maxing is a light form of paperclip maxing.2025-06-09
- The main chatbots are taking the engagement-maxing playbook of Facebook and jamming it into the most intimate personal interactions in our lives.2025-05-12
- Engagement maxing is a gravity well almost every scaled consumer business tends to fall into.2025-05-05