I love this quote from jack (npub1sg6…f63m) “There’s a lot of conversation these days about free speech, and the importance of free speech, and I think that is a complete distraction. The question, and the debate, and the conversation we should be having is around free will. Because these algorithms are being used to direct your attention, and in some cases direct your action.”
I think we can talk about a lot of abstract problems in the decentralized social media space like privacy, ownership, freedom of speech, and algorithms and it can be hard to connect them to other problems in the world. But attention and behavior change are happening at scale and it’s changing elections, increasing polarization, inciting violence, driving late-stage capitalist consumerism and a other societal diseases that help keep powerful people in power, and it’s being done through you and me.
From https://youtu.be/t-40158eRqo?si=6huO-k_l3_YlvRL_&t=1530
mplorentz / Matthew Lorentz
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2024-06-24 21:55:07
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"content": "I love this quote from nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m “There’s a lot of conversation these days about free speech, and the importance of free speech, and I think that is a complete distraction. The question, and the debate, and the conversation we should be having is around free will. Because these algorithms are being used to direct your attention, and in some cases direct your action.”\n\nI think we can talk about a lot of abstract problems in the decentralized social media space like privacy, ownership, freedom of speech, and algorithms and it can be hard to connect them to other problems in the world. But attention and behavior change are happening at scale and it’s changing elections, increasing polarization, inciting violence, driving late-stage capitalist consumerism and a other societal diseases that help keep powerful people in power, and it’s being done through you and me. \n\nFrom https://youtu.be/t-40158eRqo?si=6huO-k_l3_YlvRL_\u0026t=1530",
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