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| Topic | What happens if Facebook, reddit Google one day gets bought over by the Chinese? |
| Guide 06/12/21 4:34:21 AM #34: | At this point, we are more on the same page, and are arguing semantics. But as opposed to people using semantics as code for "I'm bored now", I argue semantics with intent. It is my bread. joe40001 posted... You are letting social media off the hook way too much. It's farming our dumbness for money. People are more dumb now because the most money is made that way. Social media literally makes more money the more predictable people are, and the more dumb a person is the more manipulatable a person is, and the more manipulatable a person is the more predictable a person is. So social media's arguably biggest financial incentive is to make it's user base as dumb as possible, so long as they want to optimize for engagement. I agree with that it profits off of dumb people, I just wouldn't say it's making us dumb. It's taking advantage of people susceptible to a host of manipulations, "dumb people", but if the susceptibility doesn't exist, I don't believe in can turn just anyone into a likely candidate for foil hats. Absolutely not denying that signal boosting these people to each other is an issue. joe40001 posted... Because it's not people "knowing better" about truth. It's about people designing a better algorithm to optimize better things. I feel like maybe you caught this as you wrote it out, but someone has to decide what the better things are, in order to optimize towards those things. It's still, fundamentally, "knowing better". --- evening main 2.4356848e+91 https://youtu.be/Acn5IptKWQU ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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