Nicholas Christakis

Like, you know, like a hippopotamus, a crocodile attacks a baby elephant.

Yeah, exactly.

The balmy elephant comes and stomps on the upper right.

It's totally, it's all fiction.

And initially I was like, really take it in by this stuff.

So there's a ton of AI slop.

That's a problem.

There is, I mean, it's just, it's useless, honestly, to me at least.

So, I mean, I don't, I have nothing particularly good to say about the environment on Twitter right now.

And it's a multiplicity, you know, a profusion of problems from my perspective.

Yeah.

Plus, plus, I wasn't so happy with all of my, I understand that all of our personal DMing and stuff on Twitter basically belongs to X and could be used to train AI algorithms and so on.

So none of that is appealing to me.

So I have a few things to say about that.

First of all, it's known that, as you everyone listening knows, that anonymity contributes to a lot of the problems.

And, you know, this is why people used to, you know, torturers used to wear masks and

you know, and people would be disinhibited when they went to mask balls, for example, that, you know, these fancy ass balls we imagined from hundreds of years ago, you know, that the aristocracy had, you know, it's disinhibiting to hide your, and this is also why people in mobs behave awfully.

They have a kind of practical anonymity

while you get riots.

It's sort of well in the process.