
Rationally Speaking #233 - Clive Thompson on "The culture of coding, and how it’s changing the world"
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Optimizing Your Efficientness
Facebook's "Like" button was originally designed to make it easier for people to like a post. But over time, the designers realized that they had created an environment where people were trying to get as many likes as possible. In some respects, these engineers really regret what they did in some places with this idea of making things more efficient but also creating unintended consequences.
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