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stafford_beer··on Academia as a d-index measuring contest
https://kevinmunger.substack.com/p/a-confession-i-p-hacked-t...

author here -- the follow-up post explains the point...it's an existence proof, that a metric exists which ranks me first....which doesn't mean that we have to care about that metric, but it does mean that we shouldn't be taking any metrics for granted as "real"

stafford_beer··on In the belly of the MrBeast
haha I'm not saying that MrBeast couldn't have sex if he wanted to -- I'm saying that, because he's constructed himself to only care about maximizing audience metrics, having sex would be a waste of his time
stafford_beer··on In the belly of the MrBeast
thank you!
stafford_beer··on In the belly of the MrBeast
totally agree--and I think this is key to Trump's success as well, that he used audience feedback on Twitter to figure out that there was unmet demand for harsh anti-immigration policy and then win the 2016 primary
stafford_beer··on In the belly of the MrBeast
OP here -- I like Baudrillard and McLuhan but the media theorist who best captures the present IMO is Flusser: https://kevinmunger.substack.com/p/the-discourse-is-the-cybe...
stafford_beer··on In the belly of the MrBeast
OP here -- excellent suggestion, I've been heavily influenced by this book and would also recommend Postman's "Technopoly"
stafford_beer··on The Tragedy of Stafford Beer (2023)
I agree, this guy gets it