Comments on: The current Instagram algorithm, or monkeys and microscopes again http://trilema.com/2021/the-current-instagram-algorithm-or-monkeys-and-microscopes-again/ Moving targets for a fast crowd. Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:36:07 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 By: George White's Scandals on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. http://trilema.com/2021/the-current-instagram-algorithm-or-monkeys-and-microscopes-again/#comment-162027 George White's Scandals on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Tue, 30 Mar 2021 22:29:39 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=100173#comment-162027 [...] It might be argued that the New-York based Instagram of 1930 worked way the fuck better than the current version, but even this much is doubtful.vi In any case it was much simpler, and simplicity in industry [...] [...] It might be argued that the New-York based Instagram of 1930 worked way the fuck better than the current version, but even this much is doubtful.vi In any case it was much simpler, and simplicity in industry [...]

]]> By: Hello, I think I'm having a heart attack on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. http://trilema.com/2021/the-current-instagram-algorithm-or-monkeys-and-microscopes-again/#comment-161961 Hello, I think I'm having a heart attack on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Tue, 30 Mar 2021 01:18:57 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=100173#comment-161961 [...] it without complaint, that's the important part. I'm a disciplined кулак & exploiter of the topless masses, I'd like that well reflected in the extant [...] [...] it without complaint, that's the important part. I'm a disciplined кулак & exploiter of the topless masses, I'd like that well reflected in the extant [...]

]]> By: Mircea Popescu http://trilema.com/2021/the-current-instagram-algorithm-or-monkeys-and-microscopes-again/#comment-161895 Mircea Popescu Sun, 28 Mar 2021 21:02:57 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=100173#comment-161895 A wow, you're exactly right! Tyvm. I think the problem's with trying "<a href="http://trilema.com/2014/agency-and-other-notes/">to serve people</a>" in general. Back when people <a href="http://trilema.com/2016/honor-societies-vs-respect-societies-or-how-the-disaster-of-commons-sunk-the-western-world/">served their clans</a> human society was actually worth the trouble. Basically a global notion of humanity is strictly incompatible with the perdurance of humanity in a global sense. A wow, you're exactly right! Tyvm.

I think the problem's with trying "to serve people" in general. Back when people served their clans human society was actually worth the trouble.

Basically a global notion of humanity is strictly incompatible with the perdurance of humanity in a global sense.

]]> By: pletzalcoatl http://trilema.com/2021/the-current-instagram-algorithm-or-monkeys-and-microscopes-again/#comment-161891 pletzalcoatl Sun, 28 Mar 2021 20:10:22 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=100173#comment-161891 Re footnote 12: you were thinking of <a href="http://trilema.com/2017/i-ate-some-pie/">the Elaine Ou</a> woman, who'd've seemed "different" enough to me on the first pass, or at least, until I finished digesting this piece. ;) As for interesting processes uselessly deployed, I wonder what their system could do that'd serve something other than innate ovine desire for safe and comfortable publicity/discovery (those oughta be in quotation marks too, but my poor pinky gets tired sometimes, what can I do). I mean, besides bacteriophage dating. Kudos for carrying artifacts in from the muck. Re footnote 12: you were thinking of the Elaine Ou woman, who'd've seemed "different" enough to me on the first pass, or at least, until I finished digesting this piece. ;)

As for interesting processes uselessly deployed, I wonder what their system could do that'd serve something other than innate ovine desire for safe and comfortable publicity/discovery (those oughta be in quotation marks too, but my poor pinky gets tired sometimes, what can I do). I mean, besides bacteriophage dating.

Kudos for carrying artifacts in from the muck.

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