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Ep 260: Sneaky Artist Sees the World

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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Getting 20 Thousand Views in Two Thousand Six Two Thousand Seven

There is a whole reputational economy based on reacting virtue signalling and performative reactions to honest content. You are rewarded for taking it to the worst possible attributions to those words. And whether or not you are right about it, there is a lot to gain from doing these things. It's just that this algorithm is so rewarding. If you do this and it there, it becomes the way that they interact with other people. What social media is doing is it is throwing these worlds together. These worlds are colliding, to use george castanza's phrase, and that makes george angry. That's a terrible, unfortunate situation.

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