Re:Testing a few new designs that don't show the public disl...
by bko on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @07:02PM
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I don't know if these large tech companies act on normal incentives. They're almost post-modern corporations.
I don't think anyone truly understands their decision making process. It's above even the leadership. Scott Alexander mentioned this in a post this week:
> Right now there's religious pressure on tech companies to conform. Someone on Twitter pointed out that tech censoring Parler isn't a sign of their strength, but of their weakness. Imagine that Mark Zuckerberg decided he personally really disliked BLM, and he was going to censor BLM and any people/organizations/apps that promoted it from Facebook. Do you think he would succeed? Do you think he could stay CEO of Facebook after he was found to be doing this? Mark Zuckerberg and Big Tech in general are as much slaves to the prevailing religion as the rest of us; their "power" is the power to choose between medium vs. high levels of conformity.
I don't think anyone truly understands their decision making process. It's above even the leadership. Scott Alexander mentioned this in a post this week:
> Right now there's religious pressure on tech companies to conform. Someone on Twitter pointed out that tech censoring Parler isn't a sign of their strength, but of their weakness. Imagine that Mark Zuckerberg decided he personally really disliked BLM, and he was going to censor BLM and any people/organizations/apps that promoted it from Facebook. Do you think he would succeed? Do you think he could stay CEO of Facebook after he was found to be doing this? Mark Zuckerberg and Big Tech in general are as much slaves to the prevailing religion as the rest of us; their "power" is the power to choose between medium vs. high levels of conformity.
[0] https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/more-antifragile-diver...