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You are talking about people with mental illness. I think the platforms produce mental illness. If you influence and produce a certain kind of behaviour through
by hux_ 9y ago
You are talking about people with mental illness. I think the platforms produce mental illness. If you influence and produce a certain kind of behaviour through appropriate reward mechanisms and then after a few years of conditioning reduce/remove the reward what do you think happens? Mental illness.
YouTube has conditioned a generation of people to chant "subscribe like and share" like a robots. The day the "subscribe like and share" model stops being viable the robots will break down.
For those who care about doing something here is a starting point - humanetech.com
- token_throwaway 9y agoThe platforms might be the difference between crazy and crazier, but nobody is going from normal to psychotic because of YT.
- Wingwing 9y agoWhere has it been described that the woman was suffering from mental illness? That seems like a retroactive label.
- Karunamon 9y agoI think mental illness is automatically implied when you go on a shooting spree for a video sharing site's monetization policies.
- Wingwing 9y agoI don't remember reading that in the DSM. You perpetuate this problem when you trivialize their concerns in this way.
- aoeusnth1 9y agoIf wanton violence against random employees of a company is a rational response in your mind to ad policies, I don't know what to tell you. Maybe get some help.
- eurticket 9y agoWhile I agree with you, I think Wing is trying to say equating Mental Illness And bad, immoral, unjustified behavior isn't correct.
- forgottenpass 9y agoIsn't the umbrella definition of mental disorder simply how well one can productively assimilate into the social status quo? e.g.: Homosexuality was removed from that book, and inattentive children are still in.
- maldusiecle 9y agoPeople doing things that you consider irrational is not automatically "mental illness." To conflate the two is both to absolve criminals and terrorists of moral responsibility and to stigmatize the mentally ill, most of whom are not homicidal. Unless you have specific evidence of a particular mental illness, this kind of statement is irresponsible.
- Karunamon 9y agoI'm not sure the relativism is called for here, given the specific context of this case.
- maldusiecle 9y ago