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by banads 7y ago
Marshall Mcluhan hypothesized that schizophrenia may be a consequence of literacy
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The problem is how people define and extrapolate what constitutes promoting genocide or child abuse is often erroneous. For instance: some people consider anti-vax sentiment to be child abuse, but dont consider cross-sex hormone injections
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An autoimmune disease is a condition arising from an abnormal immune response to a normal body part. People having different opinions is normal.
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We must be careful when using microbiological metaphors to propose solutions for macro social problems; such language has often been used to justify genocide (i.e.: "hygenic cleansing of parasites"). Besides, what we're talki
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Indeed, but attacking that with anger, outrage, and witch hunts rather than tact is not only ineffective, it may even create a positive feedback loop.
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>the other media encourages polarization and demonization of the other for dumb short term. That's a purely American phenomenon Nope, tribalism and divide et impera is a human phenomenon
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Let's not pretend algorithms optimized for "engagement" don't feed on hate. Is there any other emotion which is so easily evoked, manipulated, and engaging as anger/hate?
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I agree that does seem to be the real problem. Though I'd really like to see the alert myself to see what kind of dark patterns they may have used to incline the user to select the opiod option
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I want to think this is bad, but the way it is described here doesn't really seem like a dark pattern to me. Maybe if "perscribe opiods" was the first or default selection, it would seem worse
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What about the corporations that push addictive and poisonous food with massive multi hundred million dollar marketing campaigns targeting children?
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It's definitely disproportionate to what a street level dealer typically gets for pushing an extremely small fraction of opiods relative to what these people were doing.
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"Don't patronize others"
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What about people who consciously (or unconsciously) live extremely unhealthy lifestyles?
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This seems more maladaptive, since its talking about the depletion of stem cells.
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>Their intentions were mostly based on philosophical guess work, as they didn't have a whole lot of empirical data or existing republics/democracies to base their new government on. They had plenty of examples to base their des
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>when people are scared they make irrational decisions. ... >If even one child could be saved from abominable acts of evil, even if it meant privacy was abolished in public and private, I for one would be willing to make that sacrific
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Interesting question. Maybe, maybe not. If such a move were to foster greater competition, one might think it would help US tech innovation.
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>the effect of making it seem normal will tend to trump the disapproval. I think it may be more due to the fact that people have a natural disinclination towards people pretending to be moral authorities, especially when their premise is
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You're right, this could be a useful statistic to use in an argument, especially to data driven people, like advertisers themselves.
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I guess I just think it's funny that we need scientific studies for blatantly disingenuous claims: "their task is to simply provide information and in that way they raise human well-being." It's like doing a scientific s
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Another personal anecdote: once I stopped watching TV I stopped feeling self conscious about driving a 10+ year old car, and no longer yearned to buy a new one.
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Isn't that the primary goal of most advertising? To create a dissatisfaction in people in such a way that they're driven to buy your product in an attempt to fill that void?
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We're discussing the violent capabilities of governments versus tech giants.
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>military power, isn’t that the ultimate deciding factor? No, physical force is only one form of power. Knowledge/information and wealth are other forms of power that can be a far more practical (and scalable) means for achieving di
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>A tech company can deplatform you with impunity, but they’re not inflicting any real violence in the process. Corporations are still agents of real people, and those people are still subject to the laws of nations. The influence of Twit
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>you know which people are sedentary, which play sports, who probably smokes, and I'd bet good money there are correlations between certain conditions and shopping habits, religious preference, and even political preferences. They c
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At least 70% of the DSM-5 Task Force had financial ties to those sharks selling surf boards https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSM-5#Criticism
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"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man"
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>Citation required https://youtu.be/twhvtzd6gXA >"Depression may be related to an imbalance of natural chemicals between nerve cells in the brain. Prescription Zoloft works to correct this imbalance."
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>don't think there is any clear-cut answer of when a war is really for self-defense In many cases, there is. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Wars

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