"Our community believes in first principles thinking, meaning we originated all our own algorithms through socratic dialogue. We then test it at scale using code to see if we are right. We have found that the least wrong algorithms were designed by imagining how ten billion people might coordinate themselves if they were to perform the same job as the internet itself."
The new web needs to focus human-specific problems that were not that obvious at the time of the internet's tech focused creation -
The impact of misinformation on the real world at societal and government levels.
Whether there is a fair distribution of attention for all groups, including the underrepresented.
How to reduce isolating effects that lead to tribal fragmentation and broken discourse.
Our goal is not to tell people what to think, but to provide tools that empower free thinking. The theory is that non-violent ideas independently form prosocial consensus over time[1][2][3] and therefore out-survive violent content which has a tendency to be reactionary and authoritarian.

Didn't understand the part about Search result rankings and badges and mechanism to give users a way to stay away from echo chambers by the tracing degrees of separation. Worth revisiting.