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Yes exactly - and I think it's compounded by the somewhat greedy approach that these organizations take in terms of trying to manage content delivery with the l
by skohan 6y ago
Yes exactly - and I think it's compounded by the somewhat greedy approach that these organizations take in terms of trying to manage content delivery with the least amount of human hands possible in deciding what you should see. This kind of blind algorithmic delivery is what led to this really strange, anti-social content appearing on "children's" youtube a few years ago.
These platforms are literally designed to command your attention as much as possible. We have a history of regulating things which are unreasonably effective at hijacking the human reward system - like gambling, and narcotics. Sometimes I feel like we're an equivalent period to when you could buy cocaine or heroin over the counter at the chemist because society hasn't yet recognized the cost of failing to put some controls on it yet.