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Cure is simple. Get rid of the dumb counts (views,clicks,upvotes,likes etc etc) next to every thought/comment/image/video. These are highly arbitration/inaccurate signals of qualit…

Probably the same, but why do panderers need a broadcasting platform?

Also how presidents get elected. The spokesppl/talkingheads/oped columnists/twitterati/news reader class all do the same thing - https://taibbi.substack.com/p/introduction-the-fair…

Everybody is currently conditioned to think they have to stand up on a stage and give a TED talk/I Have a Dream speech -> drum up enough support and you are on your way right? Wron…

Divide whatever your number is by 1.4 billion. Labeling and judging people is always tempting in the face of complexity, but it is also always a choice you make.

wtf...how many Chinese people do you actually know in real life? I am betting zero.

And difficult newspapers! And difficult news! Our journalist class has somehow got into this ELI5 routine, where they feel obligated to turn every complex subject into something a …

People like to keep saying the elite will reach godhood thanks to the increasing pace of biological/technical progress (that they will reap the most). But the opposite might well h…

You asked for suggestions that didn't involve outrage and I gave you some. These are suggestion that have been around for a long time and even Jack Dorsey from Twitter and Tim Cook…

Don't show people their like counts or delay it. Provide noprocast settings like HN. That's all they have to do.

Well this is Facebook. How much political content moves through their platform everyday? Your comment makes sense if it is McDonalds or Nike or Wallmart. Their CEO's aren't being a…

The consumption data doesn't seem to be clear. Maybe I am mistaken but I would think ISP's should easily be able to provide a trend line of what the consumption rates look like.

Wagner and Dahl don't have as much influence on society as corporations do. So I don't really agree with that comparison. My issue is mindless ambition/win at all costs/do whatever…

I am also sure the study will show Donald Trump, Rupert Murdoch and Mark Zuckerberg run orgs with highly competent managers. But it is not competence in my book.

>> obligated to acknowledge opinion lol thats a nice way of putting it. It's an interesting point about why we are all so attracted to opinion. It doesn't require much mental energ…

I have been reading Marshall Rosenberg's Non-Violent Communication and according to that book - seeing people happy or seeing peoples interesting thoughts or seeing their appearanc…

HN and Reddit arent that different from other social media sites. All of them in my mind are "All You Can Eat" info buffet tables. This is just the current approach we have of deal…

Which is why ratings play a role. If Somalia decides they love their goats too much and are not handing them over, their ratings get trashed.

Debt really translates to assets sitting somewhere. If Somalia defaults you might end up owning a couple goats but if US defaults maybe you get an Airfield.

World class athletes are highly disciplined and motivated (there is a difference between those two words btw). Yet you won't find a single one without a coach. Why? That's your hom…

>> in fact the opposite What are you telling them to do? I have a psychiatrist friend who consults at the medical center, in a college town. She is getting called in so much she wa…

It's not simple to do. First you need a whole lot of data to train the system which doesn't really exist (unlike the case of speech to text or one language to another(text to text)…

Executive speak is designed for minimal fallout. But it has other deeper value in maintaining power structures and internal org stability. Any deviations and rumblings from within …

That was one good read. Scanning the comments, surprised no one has brought up religion. Specifically why religions, all religions, need rituals. Not just narratives/imagery/a prie…