is one reason that BUMMER naturally promotes tribalism and is tearing society apart, even if the techies in a BUMMER company are well-meaning. In order for BUMMER code to self-optimize, it naturally and automatically seizes upon any latent tribalism and racism, for these are the neural hashtags waiting out there in everyone’s psyche, which can be accentuated for the purpose of attention monopoly. (I’ll address this problem in more detail in the argument about how social media makes social improvement hopeless.) Not only is your worldview distorted, but you have less awareness of other people’s
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