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>If humankind ever destroys itself, in all likelihood, some group will have ideologically convinced itself that it should do so for some incredibly noble reason

• stcredzero 9y ago
  http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-emotion-goes-viral-fastest-180950182/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-emotion-go... Pretty much anyone on the internet that gets traction is using outrage to spread their message. Since the emotions that cause viral spread on the internet are only outrage, lust, and awe, some huge whopping fraction of all communications on the internet through social media results in positions so extreme, someone eventually basically advocates destroying the human race or some large swathe of it. It's like Godwin's Law. It's most certainly related to that, come to think of it. Douglas Adams was a prophet! http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6458-meanwhile-the-poor-babel-fish-by-effectively-removing-all-barriers http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6458-meanwhile-the-poor-babe...
  • hou7 9y ago
    Turn off the like/view/retweet counts or at least delay them and the outrage cycles can be slowed down and controlled. This will happen after some catastrophic event produced through uncontrolled fear mongering. As it is most country's are turning of the networks everytime a crisis happens. Its matter of time where there arises need for a global shutdown. And then the clowns in silicon valley will wake up and do it.