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Fundamentally different yet with practical outcomes that are close enough. Wildly impressive what we as a species achieved. The headline talks about parallels.
by intended 2mo ago
Fundamentally different yet with practical outcomes that are close enough. Wildly impressive what we as a species achieved.
The headline talks about parallels. A closer example is gambling if you are concerned with physical properties of a system. Light and sound.
- select1 2mo agoNo one is breaking into cars to pay for Facebook, but they absolutely are with regards to heroin.
- Fricken 2mo agoFacebook is legal, like alcohol. People drive drunk and kill people. People drive while using facebook and kill people as well.
- Xirdus 2mo agoPeople are breaking into cars because of social media trends. Remember Kia Challenge? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kia_Challenge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kia_Challenge
- psunavy03 2mo agoThey're also not doing that to pay for tobacco. Come on. Heroin is justifiably illegal for good reason already; you're stretching the analogy past breaking point.
- alastairr 2mo agoIf heroin was free, nobody would be breaking into cars but there'd still be a problem. I think we're missing the point debating addictiveness. meta very deliberately use patterns that result in compulsive usage - and at the scale they operate - cause a substantial amount of societal damage as a result.