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Adblock, but for clickbait

- defend your mind against clickbait
- open source, runs locally, scan content prior to reading
- flag emotional keywords in headlines & ad copy
- give stats on authors

Like nutritional facts on food, informational facts on content.
V2 might have a human component.

You may not have time to diligence everything, but respected members of your community could flag items as false/misleading.

It's decentralized content review, "delegated proof-of-fake".
Probably want this at OS level, scanning all text on screen or in designated apps. That's why open source is non-negotiable. Can't send data to the cloud, need it to be audited like Signal protocol.
You realize why this is important when you study headline writing. These are very carefully crafted to optimize engagement.

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nytimes.com/2017/04/09/ins…
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Balaji S. Srinivasan
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Facebook has provided free long distance phone calls, texts, video chat, group messaging, photo albums, event management, white pages, yellow pages, and dozens of other services to literally billions of people.

The New York Times reported that there were WMDs in Iraq.
“The verdict: The Times reporting was flawed, and relied too heavily and credulously on now-suspect sources of WMD intelligence.” pbs.org/newshour/show/…
Should we fund 1000 competitors to FB? Yes.

Create decentralized versions of each service so the question of censorship is moot? Of course.

But those developments will take time. In the meantime, the NYT wants to take away your free speech. nytimes.com/2019/10/04/opi…
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Balaji S. Srinivasan
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Companies used to have cap tables.

Under the Warren act they will also have crap tables: a group of “stakeholders” without any money at risk who are there to give you crap.
The next step after shareholder capitalism is not “stakeholder capitalism” (death by a thousand vetos) but blockchain capitalism.

Bitcoin and Ethereum have shown us a way to allow anyone to invest in a new technology, taking both risk and reward.
Silicon Valley was built on the cap table. A way to economically align people from all around the world to build companies like Google.

Crypto allows us to scale the concept of a cap table to millions of people from around the world. news.earn.com/thoughts-on-to…
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Balaji S. Srinivasan
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"Instead of serving the interests of the shareholders who own the company, CEOs and directors would have to serve some combination of 'the workforce,' 'customers,' 'the local and global environment' and 'community and societal factors.'" archive.is/FtEuA
This is optimized to sound good, but in practice would mean a radical change in corporate governance. Imagine every board vote being subject to California-style environmental impact reviews. citylab.com/transportation…
Stepping back, the reason proposals like this are being discussed is that many people feel left out of the economic growth of the last few decades. Though whether this is actually true is worth investigating: medium.com/@russroberts/d…
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