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> I'm sure there was no conscious and deliberate effort to psychologically manipulate the user Totally. Social media corporations would never do that.
by nate_meurer 5y ago
> I'm sure there was no conscious and deliberate effort to psychologically manipulate the user
Totally. Social media corporations would never do that.
- quotemstr 5y agoSeriously, I don't think they would. The individual people who work there are good and decent men and women. That their aggregate activity has the emergent effect of skinner boxing people doesn't make social media company people cackling comic book villains.
- _jal 5y agoYou don't have to be a comic-book villain to do bad things. Also, you seem to be asserting the people at FB can operate the machine without being aware of what it is or what it does.
- nate_meurer 5y agoThere's a lot of space in between "all employees are good and decent" and "cackling comic book villains". Is it possible that reality is somewhere in between those two extremes?