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More or less, yeah. There might be some nuance about the threshold for maladaptive behaviour, but if it’s all or nothing I’ll take all.
by InvertedRhodium 6mo ago
More or less, yeah. There might be some nuance about the threshold for maladaptive behaviour, but if it’s all or nothing I’ll take all.
- twoodfin 6mo agoHow would you get around the First Amendment difficulties?
- bjt 6mo agoThere are plenty of public interest limitations on free speech. Food labels, cigarette warnings, deceptive ad laws. Regulating addictive social media isn't really an outlier here.
- twoodfin 6mo agoEven commercial speech regulations need a stronger basis than, “People spend a lot of time listening to it.”
- intended 6mo agoThe parent comment set up a false choice and then had to adapt to the response calling their bluff. The issue isn’t with reading or consuming content, as was set up in the challenge above. The issue is with designing feeds and surfacing content in ways that take advantage of our brains. As an analogy, loot boxes in video games, and slot machines come to mind. Both are designed to leverage behavioral psychology, and this design choice directly results in compulsive behavior amongst users.
- InvertedRhodium 6mo agoI live in New Zealand, so I don't have to.