I prefer this list of what's important: https://www.gatesfoundation.org. It has things like kids not dying from diarrhea.
Things that I think will be important in the next decade
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#32Question: would VR be adopted en masse if it dropped permanently in price by 70% tomorrow?
No. VR is probably destined to remain a niche interface. There just aren't enough potential applications which would benefit from VR, or which would be improved with VR. It won't be adopted en masse because there will never be that great a demand for it.
Although if the price went down, what demand there was would probably be met. I definitely don't want to pay $400 or more for something that should just be a peripheral.
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#33I prefer this list of what's important: https://www.gatesfoundation.org . It has things like kids not dying from diarrhea.
Normative vs. positive.
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#34>I don't think private companies should be making so many important decisions that touch on fundamental democratic values... As long as our governments are seen as legitimate, rules established through a democratic process could add more legitimacy and trust than rules defined by companies alone. This is a big chicken and egg problem. Mark wants the government to set the rules but what happens when Facebook doesn't m…
Mark is lazy and value signalling.
--There are a number of areas where I believe governments establishing clearer rules would be helpful, including around elections, harmful content, privacy, and data portability.
Mark could do a lot on his own without waiting for government.
Mark could: Ban harmful content, he is a US citizen and could start with keeping a tighter lid on content that doesn't conform with non extremist western values. And then integrate other value systems shortly over time.
Mark could: get out of all election advertising and push Facebook to be a place where everyone doesn't talk about that stuff and ban targeted political adds and just do other stuff.
Mark could: Easily respect peoples privacy. I hardened my facebook profile a while back to remove most public content and the level of granularity to the privacy controls seemed like it was intentionally made difficult to do what I was doing. Dark patterns.
Mark could show leadership. he really could, he doesn't.
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#35,,Today, many important institutions in our society still aren't doing enough to address the issues younger generations face -- from climate change to runaway costs of education, housing and healthcare. '' Maybe there are ways to improve the quality of discussions _within_ Facebook to help solve these problems. It works for Hacker News, so I don't think it would be impossible. Of course indirect revenue from oil comp…
HN is essentially a hive mind cult. Look at my join date. At some point, you could dissent with your own opinion. Nowadays it’s downvotes and outrage. Shields up — ready for the downvotes. Not a great model for FB to follow. You’ll start getting DMs from people like “dang” telling you to behave, LOL.
As for me, I didn't get a DM, just a shadow ban for a controversial comment (xiphias is my original user name). A few months after not ever being voted up somebody wrote to me that she sees that I'm shadow banned even though I'm writing constructive comments.
At the same time I don't know anything even comparable to HN, so I shy away from controversial wording / topics, and this way things that I write goes through the ,,dang'' filter. I still think that he's much more constructive than what would be here without him at this scale of (non-geek) users.
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#36So his main point is a private & potentially decentralised social platform. He didn't address how the platform is going to be funded though. Advertising as we know it is well and truly dead, and I don't think Facebook or Zuckerberg are the right entities to push for change in this field. They've already demonstrated their bad faith and maliciousness. There are ways to make advertising ethical, but Facebook definitely…
Aren't things like Slack and Discord essentially private social networks? Same with other forms of group chat. I see way more activity in these kinds of channels than most of the public facing social networks other than Twitter.
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#37So his main point is a private & potentially decentralised social platform. He didn't address how the platform is going to be funded though. Advertising as we know it is well and truly dead, and I don't think Facebook or Zuckerberg are the right entities to push for change in this field. They've already demonstrated their bad faith and maliciousness. There are ways to make advertising ethical, but Facebook definitely…
>Advertising as we know it is well and truly dead
Based on what? More people are spending more money online than ever, the holidays alone in 2019 broke records at an increase of 3.4% over the previous year's sales [0].
That is on top of an increase of 2.8% the previous year, something which was heralded as a disappointment [1].
Given the above, people are clearly being guided what to buy and where to buy it, so how could one realistically claim that "advertising as we know it is well and truly dead"?
[0]https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/25/reuters-america-corrected-re...
[1]https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/14/holiday-sales-were-a-huge-di...
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#38> Generational Change
I could do without paid PR fluff.
"When I started Facebook, one of the reasons I cared about giving people a voice was that I thought it would empower my generation"
I'm pretty sure this was not one of his goals when he started facebook.
> A New Private Social Platform
So more facebook, just bite-sized for smaller groups.
> Decentralizing Opportunity
Essentially libra.
> The Next Computing Platform
Oculus.
> New Forms of Governance
"There are a number of areas where I believe governments establishing clearer rules would be helpful, including around elections, harmful content, privacy, and data portability. I've called for new regulation in these areas and over the next decade I hope we get clearer rules for the internet."
Although I somewhat sympathize with his predicament here, whose regulation is he talking about? If governments step in, then facebook would have to ultimately fracture into national facebooks. US, European nations, India, Middle eastern nations, etc are not going to have the same ideas about elections, harmful content, privacy and data portability. Even within the US, we are not going to have real consensus on this issue. This is where principles could help, but principles always seem to lose to political and financial interests.
In short, zuckerburg envisions we'll be using facebook on oculus paying with libra while governments solve all of facebooks intractable problems for him.
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#39So his main point is a private & potentially decentralised social platform. He didn't address how the platform is going to be funded though. Advertising as we know it is well and truly dead, and I don't think Facebook or Zuckerberg are the right entities to push for change in this field. They've already demonstrated their bad faith and maliciousness. There are ways to make advertising ethical, but Facebook definitely…
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#40So his main point is a private & potentially decentralised social platform. He didn't address how the platform is going to be funded though. Advertising as we know it is well and truly dead, and I don't think Facebook or Zuckerberg are the right entities to push for change in this field. They've already demonstrated their bad faith and maliciousness. There are ways to make advertising ethical, but Facebook definitely…
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