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#239 – Niall Ferguson: History of Money, Power, War, and Truth
Lex Fridman Podcast
How to Build Social Networks That Work?
I do hope that there is kinds of networks that emphasize the better angels of our nature to quote Stephen Pinker. I think it's pretty easy if you set that as the goal to build social networks that don't have these negative effects. But if the business model is we sell ads and the way you sell ads is to maximize user engagement, then the algorithm is biased in favor of fake news and extreme views. It has more to do with planning for the long term. So optimizing the selling of ads to make people happy with themselves in the long term rather than some kind of addicted, like dopamine feeling.
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