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Very insightful response. Taking your fruit analogy further - some fruit evolved to be poisonous to mammals because birds spread their seeds further. Also like
by 300bps 5y ago
Very insightful response. Taking your fruit analogy further - some fruit evolved to be poisonous to mammals because birds spread their seeds further.
Also liked the manipulation point you made. It’s why you have things from the 20th century like soda companies and McDonalds and all the other organizations just “giving people what they want”.
Now in the 21st century we have Facebook, Instagram and the like similarly low-level poisoning people.
- dredmorbius 5y agoThe marketing excuse has long bothered me, though it took me years to put my finger on just what the issue was. The Mastodon thread linked above is where I first articulated it. I'm aware of some similar work and concepts (especially "paradox of choice" research), but nothing as yet that lands close to what I've come up with. I've got a few feelers out for any possible earlier work. If there is an extant similar concept, I'd love to hear of it. (If anyone comes across this later, email me, HN username at protonmail.)