All I want from social media is to be bombarded with information that nudges my mental model in the direction of the global optimum. Is that so hard to achieve?
Discussion
> global optimum
Yes. There is no global optimum only local optima.
Made me think of this quote
“Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.”
—Philip K. Dick