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that seems excessive. any failure of your behavior to meet your self-generated long terms goals is really up to you to enforce. if we just cant stop ourselves f
by convolvatron 8y ago
that seems excessive. any failure of your behavior to meet your self-generated long terms goals is really up to you to enforce. if we just cant stop ourselves from gorging on social media candy and click bait, that underlies a pretty serious question about free will.
since for the moment the internet approximates its initial goal of underlying ubiquitous connectivity, and the costs of running services is vanishingly small, doesn't it seem like well intentioned people with broader goals could create alternate content? (i.e. wikipedia, HN, LtU)
- TeMPOraL 8y ago> if we just cant stop ourselves from gorging on social media candy and click bait, that underlies a pretty serious question about free will. Existence and success of marketing and modern advertising is a stronger blow to the concept of free will. It turns out that people are very susceptible to manipulation, and in fact are being manipulated at scale. (Also, even if humans had perfect free will, it wouldn't change much. If you see free will as a procedure taking in perceived world state, and putting out some decisions somewhat correlated with the input, you could still break it by poisoning the input. Which is precisely what most sales, marketing and advertising efforts are about.)