Social media put public discourse in the hands of society's biggest assholes and idiots just as an alien superintelligence arrives.

Drawn from what Noah Smith said

What this subject means

social media Feeds and the platforms that rank them: what an algorithm decides is important, and what curating your own sources costs.

What Noah Smith actually said

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