There is a fundamental tension in social media regulation between efficiency (detecting and removing harmful content quickly through automated systems) and the need for inefficiency as a safeguard against totalitarianism (maintaining distributed decision-making and friction that prevents rapid centralized control).
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“inefficency sounds like it's a bug but as you point out in the book there are places where it's a feature because it is it's a b workk against totalitarianism”
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Yuval Noah Harari: Free Speech, Institutional Distrust, & Social Order | Making Sense #386— Sam HarrisCreated: 8/12/2026, 6:26:14 PM
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