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We're a social species trapped in a social network wasteland. Facebook created the dominant social network, absorbing everything even somewhat related in its path. Then it turned from social network to social media to ma...
...Zuckerberg movie was called The Social Network. At the time we saw the likes of Facebook as networks intended to build 1-1 communications. Since then, it's become social Media. It's now about centralized structures broadcasting messages t...
Agent Swarms feel like Facebook culture circa 2008. Hire a swarm of driven but inexperienced 20-somethings, give them a very general target to sight off, and let it go. It's expensi...
...he 90's it was hard to imagine a world of infinite[bl] content. Twitter, blogs, Facebook, all only make sense in that world. Very hard to imagine ahead of time. Now we have infinite thinking. Infinite cognitive labor. What kinds of weird ...
This week in the Wild West roundup: A Facebook Alignment exec watched OpenClaw delete her email and couldn't stop it. Bloomberg: OpenClaw might be a security nightmare for Sam Altman. OpenAI Dev's...
An NYT OpEd: OpenAI Is Making the Mistakes Facebook Made. I Quit.
Facebook left a desert of local community organizing use cases.
...g what Google is trying to do to OpenAI: "google is trying to do to openai what facebook ended up doing to snap which is to first decelerate growth substantially (which kills a lot of momentum & morale) & then unleashing integrations at s...
Facebook is testing $14.99 monthly subscription fee to post links. The aggregator endstate.
...for employees at Meta to believe that revealed preferences are all that matter. Facebook should admit that, of course, there's some parts of global optimized social media that's bad for society. If you're the lead of the thing you need to...
...undamentally different kind of thing. So ChatGPT is not like Windows, it's like Facebook, but turbocharged. Because even on Facebook, it's only valuable if other people and other content is on it. ChatGPT is 99.999% of the value of the in...
... context of data accumulation changes, like when the Newsfeed was introduced in Facebook.
Facebook's stats say we all love doomscrolling. But every one of us hates doomscrolling. Our revealed preferences can only show what we want,[n] not our highe...
There's a massive gap in social ephemeral organizing software today. Facebook slurped up all of the social-adjacent use cases and then said, "nah, screw it, we're just going to optimize for engagement in an infinite feed." The ...
...g content. Originally in social, feeds were manually curated by each user. Then Facebook and others switched to algorithmically sorted feeds to focus attention on the stuff that was most engaging. TikTok went a step further and didn't eve...
...or an audience, which pulls everything into the engagement-maxing gravity well. Facebook started as a contact list (primary use case) with a content mill on the side (secondary use case)—but it metastasized into the latter and abandoned t...
Facebook and any ranking problem is often modeled as a 'multi armed bandit' optimization. 'Bandit' here is based on 'one-armed bandit' referring to a slot mac...
...a users added in one context is now used in another context. This happened when Facebook enabled the News Feed for the first time. It didn't make any new data shared; it just made previously shared data significantly more visible. It felt...
A HackerNews comment that stuck with me: "From the very beginning Facebook has been an AI wearing your friends as a skinsuit."
...erived from all past conversations, changing the context. It reminds me of when Facebook's newsfeed feature came out. Technically it didn't change what people could see. But it changed the context of what people would actually see; change...