Algorithmic Feeds

“Two paths to curiosity, one that can kill it and one that can supercharge it. In my opinion, the one that kills curiosity is algorithmic feeds. Like, the brain rot that you're fed every day, which is, you know, this continuous doom scrolling, that's bad. And t…”

“The feeds for a long time were trying to split you into as many cultures as it possibly could, right? Because you can, like, that makes sense from an advertising perspective, right? Like you want people to have as many thin cultures. You want to have a very la…”

“The value of coinages is increasing in a algorithmic feed environment, and compressing these big ideas down into pithy two-word phrases has, ah, disproportional returns to the actual popularization of these ideas.”

“Algorithmic feeds are the first at scale misaligned AIs. And like, I couldn't agree more, right? Like we still haven't really figured out how to align a feed with true health for people.”

“They don't need aggregators. They don't need communities to surface things for them. It's kind of becoming it's, it feels counterintuitive, but essentially if you're a super normal person who likes really basic stuff like a blowjob joke or going to Costco, you…”

“The feed and these algorithms and social media as a concept, essentially, the one thing they have done is they've elevated the status game to just a scale we've never had in human history.”