Social networks can be dominated by one sub-population.
Social networks can be dominated by one sub-population. If it catches on with one sub-population too quickly, other sub-populations see only content from the one po...
Topic: social network
14 chunks · 11 episodes
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- social network appears in 14 chunks across 11 episodes, from 2024-03-25 to 2026-04-20.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 2/10/25 (2025-02-10), with 2 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with social media, search engine, and swarm sifting, while by chunk count it sits between smuggled infinity and training data; its yearly rank moved from #178 in 2024 to #153 in 2026.
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Resonance requires multi-ply thinking.
Resonance requires multi-ply thinking. Social networks were prosocial only in the first ply. But in the other plies they weren't.
Brian Chesky on the hollowness of the Hyper Era:
...one's mind in the YouTube comments. And soon all of your 'friends' will be AI." Social networking is the most successful product that was ever uninvented. Social media grew to eclipse social networking. Friends to followers. Connection to perfo...
Increased sousveillance structurally selects for docility and polarization.
...ity camera on them at all times that can also shoot video... and they also have social networks to distribute it instantly to potentially billions of people. If you see something you think is a transgression--of a law, or of your tribe's norms-...
Garry Tan on Twitter:
Garry Tan on Twitter: "New social networks are going to appear that will be LLMs creating a cozy web customized for us and our real friends, and their friends and so on There will be a new so...
The thing that made social media problematic was social combined with mobile phones.
...nfinite feed is always within reach to colonize every free second. Also now the social network is with you everywhere, if you're sharing content it has you preening for optimized pictures to share with your followers. Instead of experiencing th...
If AI is the most intimate tech ever, then we need to get it right and make sure it can integrate into our lives in a way that makes us better.
...at makes us better. It took us a decade to see the downsides of cell phones and social networks. If we would have known the impacts early on we would have done it differently. AI will be like that but 10x.
The cost of creating software is one of the forces that led to centralization.
... software that gets better with more usage, either directly or indirectly. E.g. social networks, or things like search engines that use sifting social processes. All of the data has to flow to one place to make the software better.
Social networks are kind of like digital migrations.
Social networks are kind of like digital migrations. Any time you aggregate people, at a certain scale you get something like a society. Technologists became accide...
"Social media for vibe coding" is a thing lots of companies will do.
"Social media for vibe coding" is a thing lots of companies will do. A social network for vibe coding has a low ceiling. Apps are isolated islands which means mostly little games. The market for the network (the people who care about c...
Most platforms become dominated by social use cases.
...on for the internet back in the early nineties were largely true… but he missed social networks completely[zm]. Even at the beginning of the web it was clear that discourse would be important. What wasn't clear was the absolute overwhelming ina...
I want truly personal computing.
...to the cloud for convenience, which also allowed new types of collaboration and social networking not possible locally. But now it was on someone else's server: someone else's turf. If you didn't like how a piece of software worked, you couldn'...
Some new categories open up a whole new universe of categories within them.
...n explosion of new categories that previously were impossible (online shopping, social networks, search engines, etc).
I'm 60 hours into being "unemployed" as I write this.
...und roar. The other thing I've noticed: for all of the crap LinkedIn gets as a "social network", the professional positivity when you announce a big life change really does feel great. I feel like I'm at the beginning of my hero journey (before...