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Adversarial interaction
How users can win with online platforms
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Rick Barber
Politics, designed
The most revolutionary thing you can do in today’s politics is to assume at least a few people on the other side are acting in good faith.
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Rick Barber
Ah, The New Year
Why your resolutions probably won't work for long
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Rick Barber
Time as a complicated dimension of UX design
Is faster always better?
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Rick Barber
Real post-modernity
In 2016, I read The Sovereign Individual and watched James Burke’s Connections for the first time [1].
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Rick Barber
What is Art for anyway?
Artists have always cultivated a mystique.
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Rick Barber
The use of knowledge in the tech industry
How much and what kinds of knowledge are most useful?
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Rick Barber
Why Doesn't AI More Often Reflect End Users' Best Interests?
Someone shared a post with this title on Reddit.
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Rick Barber
For want of a button
How the like button destroyed civilization
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Rick Barber
The next basic human right
Why autonomy–that is, our ability to choose now, when we are reflective, which impulses to which we will succumb later, when we are not–will be the…
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Rick Barber
Don't share this post
Why the most popular post on Medium sucks
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Rick Barber
Selfishness and optimality
Putting some more or less formal game theory basics to informal use (hey, that could be the title of Vitalik Buterin’s memoirs)
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Rick Barber
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