@theinformation @DavidKirkpatric Nice write up David. The central issue w/ FB: our data is our digital Property.They’re talking about everything they can to divert attention away from this issue. It has the power to sink them, and many others. They shouldn’t have this power to begin with.

RT @mischa: This is an important point. Look at this interview with Zuckerberg. Zero discussion of data or information ownership. Come on @…

@ezraklein Productive interview w/ Mark. The central issue w/ FB is data ownership. Our data is our digital Property. They're talking about everything they can to divert attention away from this issue. It has the power to sink them, and many others.

Zuckerberg’s PR team is trying to steer the conversation away from the most relevant issue: We own our data. We should be in control of it. We can monetize it. We can use it to improve ourselves. They know this will sink them, so they divert #OwnYourData

The reason I care about #OwnYourData: it's central to first steps of investing heavily in radical human improvement. Improve humans, don't extract their value+make worse version of themselves. Commercial incentives need to = human improvement.

ICYMI #DeleteFacebook is a response to psychological manipulation, fake news, Cambridge Analytica & Russian meddling, to name a few. Facebook is untrustworthy; always has been. Let’s move past this realization & into a constructive next step: #OwnYourData

Thoughts on this?

If the human race were a stock, I’d short it. Not because our default cognitive configuration isn’t up to the task of succeeding in the future, but because we don’t even recognize that it isn’t.

RT @ChristinaHeller: @bryan_johnson @mtrimpe The ability to experiment with different versions of ourselves and take "risks" in simulated e…

RT @taywall: @mik3cap @bryan_johnson If we could hack our cognition with the help of technology, we’d need to grossly re-examine privacy an…