“Sort by engagement” is a choice to make your life worse and I wish we did not feel such strong commercial pressures to default users to it.
@patio11
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Product Attributes and Market Competition Analysis in Tech
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And while I think I have some ability to identify e.g. what are the attributes of these products which caused them to out-compete other products, that is still buying the product. Indeed, that is a major part of the pitch to sophisticated people.
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Employee Choices and Organizational Dynamics in Tech Overshooting
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It is underappreciated how, in point 3, employee choices (to stay at margin versus leaving) plus length of the pipeline (and turning radius of an aircraft carrier) all contributed to the overshoot. Everyone acting rationally and a situation where no one was thrilled at result.
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FTX Fraud: Industrialized Crime Network, Not Simple Mastermind
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For institutional reasons the FTX fracas has been described as variously a mastermind or a small “inner circle.” The truth is a bit worse than that: it was an effectively industrialized operation, which purchased competence from the market, then deployed it to illicit ends.
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Professional Managerial Class Access Inequality and Bureaucratic Barriers
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Professional managerial class, or, “Who in America will always win a race to get through a ten page web application where the URL and start time are published in a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying Beware of the Leopard.”
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AI Accessibility Ethics and Coordination Risks in Large Systems
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(Because the shape of this is understandable by non-specialist, because they would be morally offended because could see themselves actually using the thing, because the larger graphs are administered by people who are much more capable of coordinating codes of silence, etc.)
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Small Bureaucratic Incentives Create Disproportionate Conflict
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Every tiny graft is administered by someone who cares about the tiny graft *a great deal*, because the continued quiet administration of the graft guarantees their salary and pension. Ironically this makes the tiny grafts more likely to be sites of contention than larger grafts.
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Market Pricing and Access Substitutes in AI Systems
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4) There exist close substitutes to the thing provided by the market at market prices, in effectively unlimited quantity, which do not need to prioritize by either PMC brainsweat or timestamps. They’re prioritized in the traditional capitalist fashion: ability to pay.
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Abundance, Not Allocation: True Solution to Scarcity
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3) There is no cure for scarcity but abundance. Everything else merely allocates scarcity. Any thought about the fairness of the allocation strategy which is not “Or we could simply choose to make more of the thing” will not achieve fairness.
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Grant Selection Criteria and Racial Demographics in American Institutions
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I’m left pondering some conflicting thoughts, which I will muse about out loud: 1) Ordering one’s beneficiaries by ability to present as American PMC while explicitly asking them about their racial background so that you can qualify for grants: as American as apple pie, in 2023.