hottakes

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Pretty much this. I think the "revealed preferences" stuff applies in some cases but i believe even @dwr.eth uses them too much.

Example - 
assumption - "Unhealthy person states that they want to eat healthy but continue to eat unhealthy food so their revealed preference is that they want to eat unhealthy"

possible reality - Unhealthy food is more readily and cheaply available than healthy food. If healthy food was present near to the person then maybe the person would at least start eating somewhat healthy. 

https://x.com/nearcyan/status/1812028627690917966

The gnashing of teeth over @dwr.eth's use of "revealed preference" comes down to a simple difference of perspective:

He's a product guy, he just wants you to use his product. 
As long as you use it, then whether or not you want-to-want to use his product is not a matter of concern.

Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

Pragmatism (Security) at OP Labs.
Prev: ConsenSys & Coinbase.

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Chans: /eth-security /maurelian /stoicism




It reminds me of 2010-era Google days when "data" was used to justify whatever decision the PM/VP was trying to shovel that day.

Just a rebranding of the same premise, laundering superficial outcomes as driving forces.

Tbf 2012-era Google was all SVP vibes and fear driven, so that wasn't an improvement.

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

shazow.net

Currently: WhatsABI

When I was there, I had the displeasure of working with Vic, the Google+ SVP (my Twitter analytics startup got acquired to build Google+ analytics) and every decision made was largely out of fear and ignorance. Google+ had great numbers, but Vic was terrified of revealing that despite having 10M followers or whatever, his posts only got 100K views. (Forget exact numbers, but I had experience knowing that these funnel impression numbers were better than Twitter's.)

This was a year ahead of its time (Twitter launched their version of it later), we would have been the first social network to publicly share impressions (and we put in a ton of effort to make it privacy-preserving with various fuzzing techniques).

Anyway, got to sit in a lot of meetings where lots of dumb decisions were made out of fear of public impression, or incorrect understanding of how competitors work, etc.

Our product was ultimately blocked from launching, my team burned out, I quit, Vic ~~got fired~~ left a couple years after.