Jimmy Wales
speaker
6,110 appearances
12 recordings
11 series
first heard Jun 2023
last heard 21 Jun
Jimmy Wales’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He's not a major influencer in the world, but 700 followers is not nothing.
Meanwhile, grandma comes on and says, oh, what a cute picture.
It's so sweet.
It was so great seeing you last Sunday.
No engagement, no promotion by the algorithm and so on.
And so I tell this whole story to remind us like a lot of what we see on social media, it's toxic for a reason.
And the reason is exactly that, you know, like,
A very old statement from the oldest days, go back all the way to Usenet that I was talking about earlier.
And there was a very common expression, don't feed the trolls.
And the idea was, I mean, we could never resist it anyway, even back then, but somebody comes on and they're just trying to get a rise out of people and people respond and it causes a huge fight on a mailing list or on Usenet or whatever.
Well, now not only we have that human instinct of it's kind of hard to resist feeding the troll by going, what are you saying?
That's outrageous.
When the algorithms are actually feeding the trolls, they are encouraging that behavior.
There are people who are major political influencers on Twitter who some of them get to be quite famous.
And you look at the output of what they're writing and you're like,
They would have never stood a chance 30 years ago because they're just saying crazy, angry stuff.
They're not putting forward a thoughtful critique of the current administration.
They're just ranting.
And it's like, yeah, but those aren't really the best people to help us think about how do we improve the world.
I mean, some of it's just human, you know.
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