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Maybe social media catalyzes the problem but the point is that it’s not the root cause, in the same way that opioids did not in of themselves cause the opioid e
by Apocryphon 2y ago
Maybe social media catalyzes the problem but the point is that it’s not the root cause, in the same way that opioids did not in of themselves cause the opioid epidemic.
- jimbokun 2y agoYou need to provide some empirical evidence demonstrating what is the true root cause of the increase in mental health problems then.
- Apocryphon 2y agoProbably the first step is to simply prove that mental health issues are also increasing among populations that don’t use social media.
- jimbokun 2y agoHaidt reviewed those kind of studies in depth before making his conclusions.
- Anotheroneagain 2y agoIron poisoning and lead deficiency. They got it the wrong way round. They incorrectly packed every major cognitive process into the neocortex, instead of assigning them each to the correct part. They got the idea of intelligence the wrong way round: The function of the neocortex is dimensionality reduction - the more powerful it is, the simpler everything is. You can't improve anything that easily. You actually broke it.