...and Kim Kardashian has more followers on Twitter than Bill Gates and all the Presidential Candidates from both sides of the aisle put together.
So what? What does that say about society or the exec\brands that prop her up? There is no dearth of misguided smart people in the world doing dumb shit.
Facebook was stupid in 2007. Imho it is stupid today. People worry about AI causing unpredictable damage to society. I worry about Facebook doing it much before AI does.
It is a social experiment that should have been run inside the safe confines of a social science lab. Running social experiments on the real world, at this scale just because the tech makes it possible, and advertisers fund it is like watching the plot of Jurassic Park play out.
Maybe a quote from there is apt - "Isn't it amazing? In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought."
Whether it's stupid or not is irrelevant. People don't give their money to funds to do intellectual things with it. People (including you and me) give their money to funds to turn a profit.
DST's investment in Facebook turned out a great profit. The general rant about the "state of society" and Kim Kardashian is kinda irrelevant to this conversation.
Recently read the book "SuperIntelligence" and found it fascinating as it delves into how AI could be catastrophic and what measures we could take to avoid that scenario. Could you give some examples as to how Facebook could do it much before AI? Can it be of the same degree of severity as potential damage that AI could lead to ?
So what? What does that say about society or the exec\brands that prop her up? There is no dearth of misguided smart people in the world doing dumb shit.
Facebook was stupid in 2007. Imho it is stupid today. People worry about AI causing unpredictable damage to society. I worry about Facebook doing it much before AI does.
It is a social experiment that should have been run inside the safe confines of a social science lab. Running social experiments on the real world, at this scale just because the tech makes it possible, and advertisers fund it is like watching the plot of Jurassic Park play out.
Maybe a quote from there is apt - "Isn't it amazing? In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought."
Kara Swisher's advice still stands.