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"We flipped the incentive for going viral from outrage to overlap."

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This speaks to some of the vision of what we see UpTrust unlocking!

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/anoK4akwe8PKjtzkL/plurality-and-6pack-care

 Our social fabric was coming apart, largely due to "engagement through enragement" parasitic AI—what I call antisocial media."

"By shifting from protest to a productive demo, we began tilling the soil of our democracy. By systemically applying such bridge-making algorithms, public trust climbed from 9 percent in 2014 to over 70 percent by 2020. We showed that the best way to fix a system is to build a better one."

"We reward people who can come up with ideas that speak to both sides. Using traditional machine learning tools like Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and dimensional reduction, we highlight ideas that bridge divides."

"We flipped the incentive for going viral from outrage to overlap. The result, after three weeks, was a coherent bundle of ideas that left everybody slightly happier and nobody very unhappy. The consensus on principles became law and resolved the conflict seamlessly.

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