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Social media's engagement algorithms already played out Bostrom's paperclip thought experiment

Drawn from what Yuval Noah Harari said

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mental models Thinking tools borrowed across disciplines: inversion, second-order effects, circles of competence, probabilities, incentives.

management Running the place: an executive's calendar, dissent, severance, and what a manager is actually for.

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

Thought experiments, When a measure becomes a target

What Yuval Noah Harari actually said

  1. Yuval Noah Harari Israeli historian and philosopher, born in 1976
    In the very same years, that Nick Bostrom came up with this thought experiment in 2014, the managers of Facebook and YouTube, they told their algorithms, your goal is to increase user engagement. And the algorithms of social media, they conquered the world and turned the whole world into user engagement, which was what they were told to do.

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