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I always call this Modern Day Tobacco. At a certain level of volume, more transparency should be LEGALLY required for multiple companies (auto personalization
by scotchio 8y ago
I always call this Modern Day Tobacco.
At a certain level of volume, more transparency should be LEGALLY required for multiple companies (auto personalization / recommendation engines / etc.). At least the ability to opt-out. Just hard to define. Could you legally define “bubbling” or super duper smart recommendation algorithms?
Big tech knows this is the direction IMO.
It’s my guess why they randomly started pressing so hard for screen time usage reminders.
They’re selling addiction to kids (and adults).
YouTube, FB, Instagram, Twitter Moments all have liability when it starts to click with everyone.
It’s a serious issue that is totally unregulated and not understood by most.
- ravenstine 8y ago> They’re selling addiction to kids (and adults). To play the devil's advocate, isn't technological "addiction" the inevitable future, so why even fight it? The more engaging technology becomes, the more people will naturally(and perhaps rightfully) choose it over reality. Isn't trying to curb the addiction merely an attempt to postpone the future?
- maroonblazer 8y agoA distinction without a difference. Some experiences promote better outcomes than others. As a society we promote those that are demonstrably better vs those that are not. Why should this new terrain - digital - be exempt?
- amanaplanacanal 8y agoWe don't use that logic with other addictive behaviors, like tobacco, gambling or opioids. "They are inevitably going to take over, so why fight it?"
- amelius 8y agoI want a university or public library to manage the largest online database of videos (which is defining our culture to a great extent), not a big company like Google. A big company can provide the hardware, though.
- w1nst0nsm1th 8y agoAnd, of course, HackerNews.
- dmitryminkovsky 8y agoI built Pony [0], an email platform that delivers once a day, to see if it is possible for a platform that doesn't manipulate user psychology to succeed. In the UI I eschew every traditional user manipulation technique I could think of: there are no notifications, there are no unread message counts. There even isn’t read/unread message state. It's launching now, so finally I get to find out: can a platform that doesn't vie for attention, that lets users create their own unguided, unprompted experience succeed? [0]: https://www.pony.gg https://www.pony.gg
- zwkrt 8y agoI like it, it's the exact opposite of Inbox
- dmitryminkovsky 8y agoThank you. That's a great way to put it. I also liked when someone recently described it as an "anti-technology". Why is it often easy to describe something in terms of what it's not?
- afarrell 8y agoBecause people think in terms of responding to stimulus. It is a lot easier to see pain points and to say, "I don't like that" because the problem is concrete. To describe something in terms of what you want, you've got to do the work of imagining something new -- and thats hard.
- dundercoder 8y agoNon instant email. Very interesting.
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- dmitryminkovsky 8y agoThank you, thank you :) I have been enjoying it.