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Which past generation had an easier time? Baby boomers, maybe? But they still lived under the threat of nuclear war. I’ll take bad social media over nuclear wa

Which past generation had an easier time? Baby boomers, maybe? But they still lived under the threat of nuclear war. I’ll take bad social media over nuclear war, plague, or famine any day.

mdp2021 5y ago
Because you are taking that "lazy" expression literally. The problem of appropriate mental development, formerly tackled through education, which in many territories largely failed, must be re-assessed, and progresses must be made with urgency. It is extremely important. The quality of your life depends on it - your engineers and butchers, traffic wardens and drivers, are also a social product, they fulfil their potential or get deficient out of their environment, and you want them in the "assets" column and not in the "liabilities" column. Or are you here for the "hacking"?
- ceilingcorner 5y ago
  I cannot make any sense of your comment. Did you mean to reply to someone else?
  - mdp2021 5y ago
    You would take bad social media over death and destruction. "Bad social media" is a lazy expression for "widespread, overwhelming, faulty mental development". It easily affects the professionals which serve you. Their fault is death and destruction (your doctor, your engineer, their manager etc). Lighter remark: you want quality around you. «Or are you [at Hacker's News] for the "hacking"?» Regarding your note about a generation which seemed to have had a better time, but spent under the threat of sudden annihilation: yes, absolutely - the former post was not a comment to that.
    - ceilingcorner 5y ago
      I don’t think Facebook having bad algorithms is comparable to bridges collapsing or the plague.
      - mdp2021 5y ago
        I have never been at FB, but I think the bestiality which became apparent there where people were left free to unleash it is the same bestiality behind collapsing bridges (you know that it happens, right?) and it is worse than the plague (almost literally, but surely, after the past couple of years). When you read «super shitty social media», maybe the poster could have found a better expression, but it is a distraction to find there an issue with "improvable" algorithms, when the issue may be more with the participants. There is inadequacy. That inadequacy becomes very clear when the renovator damages your house, the mechanic your car, the medic your health.

Which past generation had an easier time? Baby boomers, maybe? But they still lived under the threat of nuclear war. I’ll take bad social media over nuclear war, plague, or famine any day.

mdp2021 5y ago

Because you are taking that "lazy" expression literally. The problem of appropriate mental development, formerly tackled through education, which in many territories largely failed, must be re-assessed, and progresses must be made with urgency. It is extremely important. The quality of your life depends on it - your engineers and butchers, traffic wardens and drivers, are also a social product, they fulfil their potential or get deficient out of their environment, and you want them in the "assets" column and not in the "liabilities" column. Or are you here for the "hacking"?

ceilingcorner 5y ago
I cannot make any sense of your comment. Did you mean to reply to someone else?
- mdp2021 5y ago
  You would take bad social media over death and destruction. "Bad social media" is a lazy expression for "widespread, overwhelming, faulty mental development". It easily affects the professionals which serve you. Their fault is death and destruction (your doctor, your engineer, their manager etc). Lighter remark: you want quality around you. «Or are you [at Hacker's News] for the "hacking"?» Regarding your note about a generation which seemed to have had a better time, but spent under the threat of sudden annihilation: yes, absolutely - the former post was not a comment to that.
  - ceilingcorner 5y ago
    I don’t think Facebook having bad algorithms is comparable to bridges collapsing or the plague.
    - mdp2021 5y ago
      I have never been at FB, but I think the bestiality which became apparent there where people were left free to unleash it is the same bestiality behind collapsing bridges (you know that it happens, right?) and it is worse than the plague (almost literally, but surely, after the past couple of years). When you read «super shitty social media», maybe the poster could have found a better expression, but it is a distraction to find there an issue with "improvable" algorithms, when the issue may be more with the participants. There is inadequacy. That inadequacy becomes very clear when the renovator damages your house, the mechanic your car, the medic your health.