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BJ Fogg [1] is someone who could have contributed to our recent "Things you built and regret" thread. His "Persuasive Computers" paper gets blamed (for example
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
BJ Fogg [1] is someone who could have contributed to our recent
"Things you built and regret" thread. His "Persuasive Computers" paper
gets blamed (for example by Tristan Harris) for the explosion of
attention economics. That's perhaps unfair as his Tiny Habits work
seemed geared toward wellbeing.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._J._Fogg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._J._Fogg
- cratermoon 4y agoFogg was pretty early in identifying some of the risks, although at the time (late 90s) I don't believe he took them seriously. One of the earliest critics from inside the industry, that I can find, was Joe Kraus, a partner at Google Ventures. You can watch his 2012 (I think) talk at https://vimeo.com/240721308 https://vimeo.com/240721308 ETA Is Google Making Us Stupid?, Nicholas Carr, 2008