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You really have to experience this to fully appreciate it. Social contagion is real.

• AndrewKemendo 11y ago
  As a developer, I do my best to engineer it into my product.
  • JabavuAdams 11y ago
    How could you shore up human weakness, instead of exploiting it? A question I've been asking myself...
    • Jtsummers 11y ago
      You can exploit the weakness to help people in another way. How many of us grew up and mastered arithmetic with Math Blaster or similar? Gasification works and exploits a human weakness. Incorporating it into a game like many mobile games (FarmVille) just wastes people's time and encourages them to spend money on meaningless tokens and trinkets that will literally disappear at some point (as opposed to the still silly and useless trinkets you might get from an arcade prize shop, but at least those you can keep). Incorporating it into something more useful (or at least with a more valuable output) is a good start.
    • AndrewKemendo 11y ago
      The problem is that our weaknesses are also our strengths, just in different contexts. Efficient heuristic formation is an amazing strength in many contexts, but it's also the same system that leads to racism, stereotyping etc... I have come to the conclusion that you really can't "shore up" human weaknesses without chemical changes or maybe some kind of tDCS type system. Even then, there seem to be some major tradeoffs. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_direct-current_stimulation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_direct-current_st...