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The fundamental problem of social media is our want-to-want and our want are disjoint. We care about the former in theory but not in practice. The platforms can only operationalize the latt...
Erin Kissane described some interesting research on social media. First, that after scrolling feeds, users report being better informed than before, but studies show they are no less well informed. The differential...
...With only one, every so often while waiting for the LLM you might wander off to social media while you're waiting. With two projects, you're more likely to always have one session ready and waiting for your input. You can stay in that mode, p...
...term "Chatham House Rules" has become more common in the last few years. As the social media landscape becomes overwhelming and cacophonous, we retreat to cozy communities. Cozy communities have high trust and expect discretion. Higher qualit...
...orkflow they had that took an input image and some text and made it sparkly for social media, using Nano Banana Pro. The workflow started producing images that looked like a design-illiterate programmer had made them. Times New Roman font, li...
...n themselves are orders of magnitude more powerful than other types of systems. Social media and search engines are an example of harnessing evolution in a computer system. But you can only do it because content can't directly hurt you. Softw...
...vibe coding feels unlike other addictions. For example, I never got addicted to social media. I'd also never proudly recommend my friends play Candy Crush, but I would proudly recommend my friends vibecode. It seems like the kinds of people w...
AI companions designed by corporations will feel like friendship, but work like social media. A dangerous combination!
...for Societal Decay: How one venture capitalist represents everything wrong with social media" It's bigger than social media, it's all of tech, and arguably all of society.
...sad. It's the same hyper-centralization and engagement-maximizing playbook from social media, just supercharged. We're taking the most powerful creative tool since the internet and using it to... serve more personalized junk food? I think the...
...ed to very powerful or rich people. Now with chatbots, it can happen to anyone! Social media also kind of gives you an infinite supply of people who agree with you. But any one might disagree with you and you need to discard them and move on....
In the blazing heat of the modern social media landscape, the productive discourse went underground. Cozy Discourse is where all of the interesting discourse happens. Most of that happens in Disco...
Social media is a highway through a village.
.... 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 believe it's a good thing. The revelation of "Are we the baddies?" is so crushing...
Social media bombards you with interesting novelty to cause a dopamine hit. Prediction errors are emotionally intense. They're uncomfortable but we also crave the...
Virality is in tension with community. Social media needs to select for virality for business models. Social media is in tension with community.
...that gets in a loop that never stops. Same thing for "Flaming hot" chips. … and social media.
...AI." Social networking is the most successful product that was ever uninvented. Social media grew to eclipse social networking. Friends to followers. Connection to performing. We're more isolated and lonely than ever before. Real connection h...
Ars Technica: With AI chatbots, Big Tech is moving fast and breaking people Social Media is going to look quaint compared to the world of sycosocial relationships.
...practice." It took us nearly a decade for the massive negative externalities of social media to be crystal clear. We're already seeing significant weird and widespread negative externalities of chatbots. Imagine where this will be in a decade...