as long as we continue promoting content using algorithms that are driven by engagement at scale, we will see content that triggers anger, shock, and frustration rise to the top.

we desperately need better incentive models and curation methods...or are we doomed to keep repeating this pattern because of human nature?

working on infra to displace adtech at /microsub • dance music lover + host of /campfire 🎧

Web3 content strategist, product marketer, creator of Is This The New Internet? Podcast, stewarding /newinternetpod 
https://linktr.ee/newinternetpodcast

it’s super addictive though…that’s a big big part of the problem

Fox News syndrome

It amazes me that people CONTINUE TO BROWSE after content makes them angry/upset. Just...do something else? Seeing all these stats about anger-inducing posts helping with platform retention is wild

As long as we are easily manipulated, we will be easily manipulated.

mirrorandloom

Our brains are constantly making predictions of the world and matches it to our sensory input as it comes in. We don’t notice this most of the time… until…. Something unexpected happens, when the model and the input don’t match up.

We are training our AIs to be smarter while simultaneously training ourselves to be dumber.