Think about spam filters; if email didnt come from someone that someone you know knows, thats an important signal, and one we could embed in the environment; we just dont. I just want the world to be filtered through my social graph.

Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.

Egalitarianism is possible only in small social systems. Once a medium gets past a certain size fame is a forced move.

We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.

Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws.

Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.

We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.