Then stop listening to him?
I hope the implication here isn’t that if you ignore extremely powerful people, they can’t affect your life.
What do people propose?
Mark Zuckerberg's vision for humanity is terrifying
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#22 Mark Zuckerberg -> Kingsman's Richmond Valentine
Jeff Bezos -> Austin Power's Dr. Evil
Elon Musk -> The 5th Element's Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel ZorgRe: Mark Zuckerberg's vision for humanity is terrifying
#23The irony is that Zuck is trying to solve problems created by his own apps. Make a social isolation app and attention sink, sell virtual friends to fill the void. The best advice is to delete your Meta accounts and meet people in real life.
Staying off of social media is the best idea ever, followed by not watching TV/movies, not reading the news, and staying off of... oh, I guess I’m on HN.
deleting fb and instagram, essentially when I was a teenager (which I saw early on was contributing to my depression) was best decision I every made. I moved to a small town from the big city and learned to socialize with people. Coming back old friends comment of how outgoing and easy it is for me to connect with people.
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#25Social media itself has become pretty bleak. "Today, only a fraction of time spent on Meta’s services – 7% on Instagram, 17% on Facebook – involves consuming content from online “friends” (“friend sharing”). A majority of time spent on both apps is watching videos, increasingly short-form videos that are “unconnected” – i.e., not from a friend or followed account – and recommended by AI-powered algorithms Meta develo…
It is addiction media, or dopamine hacking media. Meta's recent earnings report was great partially because AI was used to boost engagement on ads by 5% to 10%, which was enough to get investors on board for the massive capex. ("Datacenters the size of Manhattan" as per Zuckerberg). Datacenters the size of Manhattan and dedicated nuclear power plants, for an 8.5% boost in advertising engagement. The world is in a ver…
Yes. I do genuinely think AI can be amazing and I quit my job to build something that I hope will be a positive use case of AI
But these stats are troubling
Not to mention a backlash is brewing amongst people who both don't want to use AI and don't want their world to change so quickly.
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#26Social media itself has become pretty bleak. "Today, only a fraction of time spent on Meta’s services – 7% on Instagram, 17% on Facebook – involves consuming content from online “friends” (“friend sharing”). A majority of time spent on both apps is watching videos, increasingly short-form videos that are “unconnected” – i.e., not from a friend or followed account – and recommended by AI-powered algorithms Meta develo…
Well I think, to be fair, only about 7% of the default Facebook feed is your friend's (or subscribed-groups') content. They've shoved a lot of other stuff in there. So its kind of weird that they turn around and say, "Nope, people aren't interested in their friends content anymore"
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#27Social media itself has become pretty bleak. "Today, only a fraction of time spent on Meta’s services – 7% on Instagram, 17% on Facebook – involves consuming content from online “friends” (“friend sharing”). A majority of time spent on both apps is watching videos, increasingly short-form videos that are “unconnected” – i.e., not from a friend or followed account – and recommended by AI-powered algorithms Meta develo…
It is addiction media, or dopamine hacking media. Meta's recent earnings report was great partially because AI was used to boost engagement on ads by 5% to 10%, which was enough to get investors on board for the massive capex. ("Datacenters the size of Manhattan" as per Zuckerberg). Datacenters the size of Manhattan and dedicated nuclear power plants, for an 8.5% boost in advertising engagement. The world is in a ver…
I realize this is a dumb question, but: all of these advertising supported business must be downstream of the “real economy” (of products and goods) in some way. After all, for ad revenue to rise continuously it must be the case that product and service companies are continuously spending more on advertising. And yet in the stock market, nearly all growth comes from these ad-supported companies and earnings elsewhere don’t increase by as much. How sustainable is this?
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#28Mark became an expert at catering to investors' ears to pump the stock: buybacks, dividends, metaverse, AI...
Its the only job hes ever had. Hes a professional sociopath whose entire existence revolves around building the most advanced social engineering platform that has ever existed. World would be a better place if he drowned the next time he went surfing at his private beach.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is addiction media, or dopamine hacking media. Meta's recent earnings report was great partially because AI was used to boost engagement on ads by 5% to 10%, which was enough to get investors on board for the massive capex. ("Datacenters the size of Manhattan" as per Zuckerberg). Datacenters the size of Manhattan and dedicated nuclear power plants, for an 8.5% boost in advertising engagement. The world is in a ver…
I realize this is a dumb question, but: all of these advertising supported business must be downstream of the “real economy” (of products and goods) in some way. After all, for ad revenue to rise continuously it must be the case that product and service companies are continuously spending more on advertising. And yet in the stock market, nearly all growth comes from these ad-supported companies and earnings elsewhere…
A lot of growth comes from automatic contributions to 401k and other such structures. So if people are buying the index, reasonable, but nvda alone makes up 5% the index by weight these days, guess what stock gets an outsized amount of buying irrespective of actual performance.
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#30This is the problem with increased wealth disparity. We're all subject to the whims and fleeting thoughts of the top 20 billionaires. If Mark Z has an idea about social media, well, he controls 80% or something of social media. Even if his idea is terrible, we have no alternatives to switch to, we just have to wait out the irrationality.