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Optimizing Facebook's Algorithms for Human Values Instead of Clicks (surgehq.ai)
7 points by echen on July 29, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Have you heard of people asking an architect of a Library to optimize the arrangement of space to influence their reading pattern so they have healthier connections with the their friends or family or society?

It's a useless and absurd goal.

We don't even know what the hell we are trying to build these days. Thats the influence of being around badly designed systems for so many years.




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