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Rather than calling it human behavior and psychology I prefer to call it human weakness. Human weakness, bias, ignorance etc are like software bugs in systems
by thori 11y ago
Rather than calling it human behavior and psychology I prefer to call it human weakness.
Human weakness, bias, ignorance etc are like software bugs in systems that mostly can't be patched.
We have got so good at detecting and exploiting these bugs at speed and scale that all I see happening is another Greenspan type moment, where a future Google\Facebook CEO is sitting before a committee wondering how everything imploded.
I mean Google\Facebook\Twitter etc benefit from the traffic Porn, Trump and ISIS pay for and generate much more than anyone else does. It's ridiculous.
- takno 11y agoI'm not sure it's useful to dismiss human behaviour as human weakness. It is what it is, and adding in essentially a moral dimension won't add much to the analysis
- SpaceCadetJones 11y agoIt's not a bug, it's a feature! Just because it can be taken advantage of doesn't make it a bug. There are reasons these features developed, they were/are evolutionary advantageous. Things like bias are important because they help make us more efficient. They create blind spots, but they also allow us to more wisely spend our limited processing power. We have to compartmentalize things to understand them, we have very limited capacities. We have to do mental rounding in order to make sense of the world around us, there's simply too much information.