For me, the question is bigger than just harm reduction and efforts at it, in fact, in the book a whole chapter is made around the example of slot machines, and

For me, the question is bigger than just harm reduction and efforts at it, in fact, in the book a whole chapter is made around the example of slot machines, and the concept of 'autism as a design principle'. It's about the design decisions made and the way that we accept design which is clearly optimised to exploit human weakness. I guess, more broadly, it's about the ethical framework that one choses to make their decisions and broader policy within - which is really the whole point of the book I went against, and which your comment reinforces - But a politician would look pretty silly taking a stand against Mafia Wars on the floor of a legislative body. That statement is only true within our current mode of thinking about these things, this book and all the other writing on the economics of attention is showing me that there's another way to think about this, and just because the standards we currently accept are normative, doesn't mean that they're exhaustive - and certainly not perpetual.