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The opioid epidemic has also had a huge impact on these numbers.

I’m very active on Twitter and it does not offend me, that’s a peculiar association and odd bias you seem to have inserted here. You can be pro capitalism and pro technology while also being thoughtful about its potential risks. The theoretical argument for the Twitter purchase is to encourage free speech and highlight how big companies have used their tech to shift public narratives and opinions. Google almost certainly does this to some extent already. Google rushing with a half baked competitor releasing an intelligence that is so believable most people do not scrutinize it for accuracy has profound implications for human society.

This idea ignores the possibility that consumers will consume things that are actually bad for them. FB misinformation, SEO manipulation, are not necessarily pro consumer despite being profitable. People love cheap sugar and look how that’s working out for society.

Exactly. They went too far on the perfection being the enemy of progress spectrum. Although given the potential implications of the tech being prudent here may be a better long term play for society. There’s an ever present struggle with providing information that is accurate, information that is plausibly accurate, and what a customer/user values more.

Imagine using low earth orbit parabolic mirrors …