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"AI will make things much better, just as the Internet did." We must be living in very different worlds. I sometimes wonder if the numbers behind https://en.wik
by fatherzine 3y ago
"AI will make things much better, just as the Internet did." We must be living in very different worlds. I sometimes wonder if the numbers behind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease_of_despair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease_of_despair (roughly tripled in 20 years of Internet) are just the first steps of a hockey stick.
- chii 3y agoHow would you know if these disease of despair wouldn't have been worse had there not been internet? How come the same despair from places like russia (where death from alcoholism is almost epidemic), isn't being attributed to the internet there?
- reubenmorais 3y agoThe article is about a phenomenon observed in a narrow demographic of Americans, and explicitly calls out that "US Black non-Hispanics and US Hispanics, as well as all subgroups of populations in other rich countries (such as countries from the EU, Japan, Australia and others), show the exact opposite trend." How do you go from that to thinking it must be the Internet causing it?