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The front page of Reddit is not always outrage. Besides, if our brains are designed to zoom in on certain signals, is it rational to expect technology to someh
by intended 5y ago
The front page of Reddit is not always outrage.
Besides, if our brains are designed to zoom in on certain signals, is it rational to expect technology to somehow prevent this?
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Besides, if our brains are designed to zoom in on certain signals, is it rational to expect technology to somehow prevent this? Technology can mitigate it (by suppressing the signals, offsetting the effect) or exploit and exacerbate it. The former is often socially useful, but the latter is usually the path of least resistance to profits, and capitalism isn't a system whose incentives optimize for social utility.