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It's not just safety and security that must be provided, but social inclusion as well - especially if what you care about is countering the negatives of the "at

It's not just safety and security that must be provided, but social inclusion as well - especially if what you care about is countering the negatives of the "attention market". Traditional societies are actually very good at this, thanks to their highly-refined social structures which mesh well with human social ("tribe") instincts. Modern-day societies that try to be "market-based" to a rather extreme extent are a lot more atomized. You can deal with that if you're lucky enough to have relatively-high income or wealth, but it's essentially a crappy, inefficient band-aid-- and the people in "relative poverty" are still SOL.

erikb 8y ago
> It's not just safety and security that must be provided, but social inclusion as well Isn't it curious that we need to provide this as external source of safety? I'm not disagreeing, I also think so, but it's still surprising. If we think about that "the machine" is objective, and that it can look into our hearts, that it wants to reach as many of us as possible, and wants to convince us to do its bidding by positive feedback loops, then why doesn't provide safety and security as a default? Makes me wonder if our feedback loop is somehow "buggy" and that the feedback loop and our needs are not really correlating that much.