The Psychology of Technology Institute Newsletter | Ravi Iyer | Substack

We need to incentivize technologists and tech companies to do more than growth hack. One solution is to invest in public measures of long term value. Read to the end for opportunities to be involved.

Mar 8

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Recent legislation and court cases over the future of online social platforms often focus on regulating speech. Regulating value alignment through…

Feb 9

A recent Wall St. Journal article provides more evidence that removing ambiguous engagement signals like comments and shares from civic algorithms can…

Jan 10

Musk's declared objective function for Twitter is likely to approximate time spent. Optimizing for highly valuable experiences would be a better path…

Jan 2

Social media is out of balance. The Twitter Files show that content moderation really is a dead end and we need to shift the conversation toward design…

Dec 12, 2022

Today's post is wonky, but algorithmic transparency laws have passed in the EU and are in progress in the US and UK, and we need to make laws…

Nov 16, 2022

...and therefore social science input will be sorely needed. In addition to this article, please keep scrolling for an exciting event invitation, as…

Oct 25, 2022

Important work is done by moderation, but it cannot solve broader issues with technology. Subjective Measurement, Designing for Well-Being, …

Oct 7, 2022

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