Palihapitiya and Parker seem to disagree about something important. Parker says that the psychological programming was deliberate: “It’s exactly the kind of th

Palihapitiya and Parker seem to disagree about something important. Parker says that the psychological programming was deliberate: “It’s exactly the kind of thing that a hacker like myself would come up with, because you’re exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology,” he said. “The inventors, creators [...] understood this consciously. And we did it anyway.” But Palihapitiya says, “Because your behaviors, you don’t realize it, but you are being programmed. It was unintentional, but now you gotta decide how much you’re willing to give up”. Does Palihapitiya not realize that the programming he decries was built in to the system deliberately by its designers? Or is Parker wrong?