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John Robb Profile picture
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Sep 14, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
I'm watching "The Social Dilemma" on Netflix.

It interviews people who worked at Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc.

All of them claim that they didn't know that social networking was revolutionary technology and that the disruption it has caused is a surprise.

1/n
They simply went along for the ride.

I can tell you, when a few of us were building social networking, long before Facebook, Twitter, etc. were even ideas...

we knew...

2/n
We knew what we were building was revolutionary.

It was a technology that would change everything... once we got it going. And it did. It still is.

It changed warfare.

That's why I started writing about "Global Guerrillas" back in 2004...
Why warfare? It's where the changes from a major tech shift often play out first.

Next it went mainstream.

It rewired our minds, and now it is rewiring society to match those internal changes.

It's revolutionary. By design.

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Jan 27, 2023
Globalization and problem solving:

'when the intended distinction between observer and observed begins to disappear, the uncertainty values hide or mask phenomena behavior'
'Under these circumstances, the uncertainty values represent the inability to determine the character or nature (consistency) of a system within itself.'
And it is getting worse:

'entropy must increase in any closed system or, for that matter, in any system that cannot communicate in an ordered fashion with other systems or environments external to itself.'
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Jan 22, 2023
2023 Edelman Trust Barometer

edelman.com/sites/g/files/…
This is for the global 27 (China, India, US, Mexico, etc.)
This...
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Dec 4, 2022
Proposal for @Twitter and @elonmusk on #dataownership

Be the repository for claiming ownership of data and information used in machine learning and getting paid for it.
@Twitter @elonmusk Post originals. Pictures. Videos. Text. Documents. Art. + metadata

Twitter negotiates with everyone using that data in ML/AI (whether they got it from there or not -- will use Twitter’s data to check other repositories).

Twitter pays people royalties on their data.
@Twitter @elonmusk Posting original documents/pics etc., turns Twitter into a reference source.

An improved search of this reference data would make Twitter even more useful.

Getting paid for data use is a feedback loop that increases usage.
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Nov 8, 2022
Twitter as a platform for social AIs

Twitter is the best fuel (range of ideas + interaction) for training and improving social AIs in the world.

Nothing else comes close.
These social AIs will be immensely valuable.

Share the revenue generated with users. Provide an enhanced share with users who pay subscriptions (they are funding development).

Eventually, everyone gets paid.
Early examples of social AIs: GPT-4, MidJourney, Stable Diffusion, etc.
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Oct 13, 2022
"contributed to the deaths of more than 450,000 people over the past two decades."

"McKinsey’s extensive work with Purdue included advising it to focus on selling lucrative high-dose pills (and) “defend it against strict treatment” by the Food and Drug Administration."
Reminder: The first epidemic of the Century was manufactured.
"In the past, McKinsey avoided legal liability for high-profile failures of some clients, including the energy company Enron."

"the firm “suggested sales ‘drivers’ based on the idea that opioids reduce stress and make patients more optimistic and less isolated.”
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Oct 1, 2022
This was apparent back in February.
Yet, this is apparently just dawning on the White House (and across Europe).

nytimes.com/2022/10/01/wor…
Worse, nobody in the establishment seems to understand the role of networks in destabilizing and escalating this situation. Likely because they were active participants in this network.

johnrobb.substack.com/p/swarms-vs-nu…
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