So many of our problems in the last several years—e.g., social network platforms being infested with Nazis and subverting democracy—have revolved around irresponsible system design.
All uncoincidentally spawned from the same west-coast techbrolibertarian design philosophy.
@lawremipsum "Fail fast and break things, but not MY things, or things in a way that would be a bummer for me personally, it's OK if other people are hurt tho"
@lawremipsum If it's "subvertable", it's not good enough. I agree that West-Coastean philosophy of "worse is better" is definitely part of the story, but so is the Atlantic (or Mediterranean... if we're using loose geographic associations) philosophy of a static democratic system that doesn't adapt to a changing environment.
We must move on to #antifragile systems.
"Fail fast and break things" basically guarantees you're building on a flawed foundation, and you're hoping you won't be around long enough to discover its flaws.