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Define "letting". This seems to me to be the same pattern as every other new communication medium. Sure, it's more addictive now. Do you think playing whack a m
by Schiendelman 2y ago
Define "letting". This seems to me to be the same pattern as every other new communication medium. Sure, it's more addictive now. Do you think playing whack a mole with the definition of addictive will solve that problem? I don't.
I think the only way to get the outcome of "people less addicted to media and dumb ideas" is to make addiction uncool - and government can't do that. People are doing the social changes naturally already. Lots of people are off social media. People are quitting alcohol too, and porn. Those people will be more successful in life, and more likely to reproduce.
This seems like a nothingburger for an onlooker.
- api 2y agoI'm not as optimistic about people learning, and addiction has never gone away. I used to be more of a libertarian about things like financial regulation, but what changed my mind was watching markets and especially things like the cryptocurrency phenomenon where you really did have deregulation. All you get is scams because people keep falling for the same nonsense over and over again. None of it is new. Ponzi schemes, bubbles, gambling, rug pulls, wildcat banking, all of it is hundreds of years old or more, but it keeps working because every generation falls for it anew because dopamine. I think you'd have to re-architect the human dopamine system in very deep ways if you wanted to change this. We are very easy to hack.
- Schiendelman 2y agoI'm not saying we can fix addiction. I'm saying we shouldn't try to regulate this away, we won't have any real impact.