Maybe it's an explore/exploit thing, social media is good for exploring but to build depth we should switch off the socials and hit the books every other week.
It seems small, but it's a big distinction between hero worship and role model!
'Hero Worship' is about elevating someone to a categorically higher level. This can lead to thinking you could never be as good, taking everything they say as gospel, defending even their poor opinions, etc.
If we -worship- 10x developers, you can maybe better see how with the emphasis on that word things can get pretty toxic pretty quick. For example, I think many would agree HR disputes should not take talent level as an input, but if one of those people isn't even a mortal...
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None of this is necessary to have a role model, or precludes celebrating someone for doing excellent work as is this case.
Emotional state is probably an input to advertising/content engagement.
Algorithms maximizing engagement probably then grow to manipulate emotional state as a proxy variable. Even if they weren't aimed to.
From there, if an optimal emotional state happens to be "An impending sense of doom, terror of the pervasiveness of crime in my country" other "doom scrolling" etc, the algorithm could we'll be providing psychological harm.
(No idea if this actually applies to this doc, as it's language and aims may be technical)
Viewing a company as responsible only to it's shareholders is perspective only proposed and adopted in the last 50/60 years (maybe less), and I believe, a flawed one.
Historically, businesses were understood to also have responsibility to their communities and customers. Also their workers, though perhaps that began to shed somewhat less recently.
In my view, any person or entity is morally responsible for their impacts on others.
So, I believe companies should, indeed, have moral standards.
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That said yes this is a cultural shift so by no means any kind of immediate solution, and there will always be bad actors, so yes totally agree, fix the policy!
But let's not support a business culture where being a bad actor is cool- it makes the already very difficult job of appropriate regulation that much harder.