As long as corporate social media is closed source, it would be hard to know if a no-advertising policy is being fully adhered to. A good example of this is the class action lawsuit against Chrome’s incognito mode: for years, Chrome got away with collecting personal browsing data when people browsed in incognito mode despite insisting that they didn’t do that. Something similar might happen with social media. To get around that, there could be a legal requirement for social media to be open source. That might run into issues with intellectual property law though, and the lobbying against it would be so intense that I’m not sure if a law like that would ever pass without massive political will.
Social media does seem unique though just because of how addictive it is. If you look into the details of how meta targets children and intentionally tries to addict them it paints a pretty sinister picture: https://techoversight.org/2026/01/25/top-report-mdl-jan-25/
I agree it would be better. I'm just saying that in theory cameras are all that would be required to achieve human level performance, so long as the AI was capable enough
It's still a valid question though. The guy might be fictional but the story is still there, so its coherent to ask questions about its internal universe
There is some limited evidence to suggest that heart transplants can transfer aspects of the donors' personality and possibly even traumatic memories over to the recipient (see here ). There are also a lot of anecdotes that effect (eg this or the one you mentioned). I actually even remember once hearing a story of a woman who claimed she became lesbian after a heart transplant.
He's right in that if current AI models were genuinely intelligent in the way humans are then cameras would be enough to achieve at least human level driving skills. The problem of course is that AI models are not nearly at that level yet
we already see a phenomenon going on with Fediverse, and Web as a whole: invite-only and/or need-to-apply places
The need-to-apply model would be totally unscalable for traditional social media platforms because of the sheer number of requests that would need to be processed on a centralized. But something like this can work on the Fediverse because you can split the workload up between different instances
If we’re being optimistic, then the process you’ve described would also help cut back on bots and influence campaigns