Oz Zeren

Joined October 2021

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Why Are People Closed-Minded?
People choose to be close-minded because being open-minded has a lot of costs associated with it: When one is open-minded, he faces cognitive dissonance and conflict within the context of his current life if he realizes that something he believed before, just is not right.
By Oz Zeren4 years ago in Humans
It's Not Only Social Networks - The Entire Internet is Gamified to Meaninglessness
After I wrote about how engagement algorithms are killing meaningful content in social networks, I started noticing some things on the Internet that I did not pay attention to before :
By Oz Zeren4 years ago in Futurism
You Can Be a Billionaire Without Exploiting Others
The very question of whether anyone could really, reasonably make use of billions of dollars aside, it may be surprising to hear that it is possible to be a billionaire without exploiting others, causing inequality, damaging the society or environment.
By Oz Zeren4 years ago in Trader
In a Cooperative Economy, Elon Musk Would be Standing on Mars Right Now
So, Elon Musk wants humanity to reach Mars in his lifetime, right… And he is putting in all the effort he can to make it happen.
By Oz Zeren4 years ago in Futurism