Most people don’t realize that recommendation algorithms are the root cause of an inevitable civil war.
People naturally think, “civil war? That’s extreme.” Denial is natural when the truth is too painful to bear. But these kinds of things happen in a snap.
These algorithms continue to polarize, naturally, as they are incentivized to specifically optimize for reaction.
And this will continue to happen until an attempted assassination of a president, the murdering of a prominent political influencer, the normalization of a paramilitary executing citizens, and so on.
And by the time we get there, people will want it. And they’ll want more of it too.
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