Why LinkedIn sucks?

A little neodarwinian theory of evolution and some epistemology do the trick

Genes and memes are replicators.

Both evolve by criticism and error correction, except with genes criticism is exposure to nature (to an ecological niche) and error correction is death.

With genes we try to spread the knowledge embedded in our genetic code while with memes we try to convince others that what we know is the truth.

But contrary to what people think, it is not the genes that are most adapted to its ecological niche those that tend to survive. It's those that push the most replication, the most viral ones, that tend to survive instead.

With memes the same happens, it is the those that are most viral those that tend to survive unless we apply ruthlessly the scientific method. Memes reprogram us and with every reprogramming we believe we now know what the truth is, but we are fallible, so chances are we are wrong despite being certain of being right.

Unfortunately the scientific method can't be applied in an algorithm on a social network. Nobody has been able to turn the scientific method into an algorithm.

Consequently, a terrible viral information sprinkler like LinkedIn can only help viral trash spread around in our feeds.

It is your duty to run away from such social networks.

Now you understand why I moved my content back to my newsletter here in substack. Perhaps I should have never moved away.