Hank: finding better ways to use social platforms will take a long time (2021)
prediction · status: unresolved · last event: repeated (2022-12-09) · owner: Hank
In June 2021 Hank said there are better ways to use social platforms, but finding them will take a long time. A month later he repeated that working out what makes large online systems better will take a long time.
About: social media
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-04 | predicted | The description says Hank thinks there are better ways to use these platforms, but finding them will take a long time. | Is Twitter Redeemable? video description |
| 2021-07-16 | repeated | Hank says the hard work of finding what actions make large online systems better will take a long time. | Should You Abandon Social Media? 00:02:44 |
| 2022-12-09 | repeated | Hank's big concern: we have not yet got through the last revolutionary shift in human communication and are still figuring out how to live with disruptive tools given to us 10 or 20 years ago. | Things are Changing Very Fast 00:01:56 |
What is said about it
8 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2021-06-04 · Is Twitter Redeemable? — Hank: Twitter offers a followable 'John Green actor' topic for John, an inaccurate one; Hank doesn't follow it, since following his brother as a topic is too much. (playful) — 00:00:09
- 2022-12-09 · Things are Changing Very Fast — Hank notes many of these platforms have never been through a recession and have grown on lots of money; now at a ceiling, nobody knows what they will do to break through. — 00:02:26
- 2022-12-09 · Things are Changing Very Fast — Hank says it now feels like another weird, entirely new wrench is about to be thrown into human communication. — 00:02:26
- 2022-12-09 · Things are Changing Very Fast — Hank says ChatGPT is not good at replacing Wikipedia: it confidently states true and untrue things alike, and only fact-checking tells them apart. — 00:02:55
- 2022-12-09 · Things are Changing Very Fast — Hank thinks such AI will be great at easy problems, like getting people to dislike each other more. — 00:02:55
- 2022-12-09 · Things are Changing Very Fast — Hank says many people, external and internal, want people more afraid of and hostile to each other; much get-out-the-vote work is about fear and anger. — 00:02:55
- 2022-12-09 · Things are Changing Very Fast — Hank says making people afraid and angry at each other is a trivial problem for AI: it only has to emulate a human at their worst, and at our worst we are not complex. — 00:03:24
- 2022-12-09 · Things are Changing Very Fast — Hank says fast change in people and societies is usually not fun; he wouldn't mind things getting less interesting for a while, but we don't get to choose. — 00:03:49