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>What will prevent a bad actor from providing subject material that teaches people to bring harm to themselves or others. Well the bad actor would need root ac

• flyingcircus3 9y ago
  Hallucinations can be induced through LSD, or psylocibin, or just being in the middle East over the last century. Perhaps you should ask yourself if you've gotten good at parrying Russian troll accounts in the last couple of weeks, or if you've learned to question your own assumptions. My grandfather got his ptsd in Okinawa. My brother's friend got his in a statepark when he took too much LSD. My original point is that cognitive behavioral therapy is a medium. It is just as good at creating addicts as it is helping them recover. Teenagers learning to put up with the downsides of cigarettes to gain their peers social proof is cognitive behavioral therapy. Its pretty successful too, if you happen to manufacture tobacco.
• birthcert 9y ago
  Not necessarily. At a minimum you need access to the sensory environment of the subject: Teens on Twitter are more easily radicalized when their timeline consists largely of terrorist propaganda or war front reporting on civilian casualties. Facebook has done experiments where they changed the sentiment of the timeline for a certain user and saw a significant sentiment change in future posts by that user. Besides, the average human is not able to set a password, and their brains are open to all sorts of attacks. Cults, terrorist organizations, and multi-level marketing schemes abuse these weaknesses to get their followers to do things that may not be in their own best interest.