Mark Zuckerberg is the Apex Predator of planet Earth.

Jeff Bezos could probably take him in a street fight.

I would LOVE a monospaced version of this. If any type designers are out there, please make this happen.

Yeah, it's surprisingly attractive and easy to read.

Huh. Design is so subjective. I would not call this site "aesthetic".

This is about the design process, not a particular visual aesthetic.

agreed !

New social networks are a huge opportunity. Decentralization is just an architectural consideration, not significant to users. A novel user experience is needed to disrupt the market leaders. Clones of existing interfaces with "decentralized" ideology are not appealing products to most humans.

Except for the fact that a decentralized service can split. This will affect users.

This is a non-serious piece. Not a single mention of mining/resource extraction or security. As long as people are fighting over rocks, we live in a capital-driven world. Key questions are who owns the minerals in the ground and the airwaves in the sky? "Humanism" has always been an ironic euphemism for imperialism, and I suppose it still is in "the world after capital."

Even if we had enough rocks, we'd still find something to fight about: ideas even.

Objectively, the number of wars deaths is going down, but tribalism overall seems to be going strong. Humanity has some growing to do, still.

> "Everyone else is doing it."

Around the world, there are many "smart" people making autonomous weapons systems, "anti-fraud systems" that are really psychometric profiles, trading systems that front-run their customers, fraudulent advertising and fraudulent ad metrics, etc. It's pretty standard.

Believe whatever it takes to help you sleep at night. No one can persuade you otherwise.

Well, I think you're missing the point. It's used by PR people to keep an eye out for news stories before they go viral, for spokespeople to read about themselves, and for market researchers to look smart by identifying trend pieces.

None of this software is smart enough to enable the sort of surveillance and oppression you are implying from your other examples. It's really 101-level stuff.

> Believe whatever it takes to help you sleep at night. No one can persuade you otherwise.

I don't even understand what this means. It's a searchable index of news, with some text analytics that you can get for dirt cheap from google or amazon.

Torturing people deemed to be terrorists is not intelligent, it's a war crime, and it's everybody's problem.

Thank you so much, Jeff. I've listened to over 100 episodes. Your podcast is an incredible way to learn about a technology before deciding if it is worth a deep dive. For anyone who likes to maintain a wide general knowledge base to help them navigate the rapid advance of trends and truly transformative technologies, I would highly recommend SE Daily.

And once you're hooked on the tech pieces, check out the rare philosophical episodes, like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12584991

China is even more of a surveillance society than the US. America's top advertiser isn't happy. I am OK with America losing the race for total state control of information.