Professor Kenneth Stanley has just launched a brand new type of social network without any popularity contest of likes, which he calls a "Serendipity network".

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Original MLST show with Kenneth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhYGXYeMq_E

TOC:
00:00 - Introduction
02:14 - Sam Altman Story
04:43 - What is Maven?
16:08 - Cofounders
16:59 - WGCNBP
23:00 - Link to RL
27:45 - Natural Plausibility / How Far Can We Go?
33:59 - Jim Fan
36:47 - Picbreeder
43:54 - Language Game
49:40 - Creativity
58:15 - Why did Kenneth do Maven?
1:10:15 - Agency + Politics Lens
1:12:06 - Agency Deprivation on Left and Right
1:17:47 - The Ultimate Divergent System Is the World
1:22:04 - Why is high agency social good?
1:25:27 - Agency or Deceptive Objective (FB)
1:31:20 - YouTube Debasement
1:38:21 - The Space of Creativity, Measuring It
1:40:32 - Market System / Profit
1:43:14 - Agency to Power Seeking
1:48:01 - Is Serendipity == Power Seeking?
1:55:19 - Morality
1:59:24 - Accounting for Our Intrinsic Drive to Explore (+Friston)
2:05:27 - Pure Exploration? Any Planning?
2:07:55 - Most Social Media Users Consumer
2:11:24 - Echo Chambers
2:13:47 - Is Social Media Broken? Maybe Edit, A Bit Like WHY Question
2:18:02 - AI X-risk
2:25:03 - Agency Interpretation of Kenneth's work
2:35:23 - Status Game
2:47:16 - Facebook
2:54:26 - Cold Start Problem
3:03:44 - Convergence from Other Platforms (Maven)
3:06:29 - Objectives Creeping in Later
3:08:15 - Will Zuck Copy?
3:09:51 - Panopticon / Social Identity