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0 pointsfullshark5y ago0 comments

Sometimes I wonder if getting people to click on more ads was actually a more socially beneficial project for that talent.

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rawtxapp5y ago

If you look at it from the perspective that ad-clicking has funded the biggest information retrieval system and the biggest human connection platform, yes it was overall socially beneficial.

zepto5y ago

A counterfactual is that those two things would have happened anyway, and the ad-funded model has deeply corrupted both of them.

rawtxapp5y ago

I don't think there's world with these counterfactuals in place, do you have any proof?

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0 pointsfullshark5y ago0 comments

Sometimes I wonder if getting people to click on more ads was actually a more socially beneficial project for that talent.

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rawtxapp5y ago

If you look at it from the perspective that ad-clicking has funded the biggest information retrieval system and the biggest human connection platform, yes it was overall socially beneficial.

zepto5y ago

A counterfactual is that those two things would have happened anyway, and the ad-funded model has deeply corrupted both of them.

rawtxapp5y ago

I don't think there's world with these counterfactuals in place, do you have any proof?

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