The counterpoint to this is that ‘human nature’ never had to deal with the addictive algorithms designed to keep people viewing Ads. Obviously this applies to Youtube and others too.
It doesn’t take a long hard look at ourselves to acknowledge that we are quite vulnerable to manipulation or addiction.
Those vulnerabilities are not going anywhere.
I suggest that there is no value in somehow blaming ourselves for them and that what we need to do is make good decisions about how we shape our world to support humans as we are rather than to maximize exploitation of our weaknesses.
It’s quite straightforward to acknowledge that things like holy wars based on ideology have been with us for a long time.
It’s a straw man to suggest that anyone is saying “let’s abolish the tech giants and everything will be great”.
You say: “I believe that our unwillingness to face the deeper problem will prevent it from being solved.”
Can you articulate what this deeper problem actually is?
It doesn’t take a long hard look at ourselves to acknowledge that we are quite vulnerable to manipulation or addiction.
Those vulnerabilities are not going anywhere.
I suggest that there is no value in somehow blaming ourselves for them and that what we need to do is make good decisions about how we shape our world to support humans as we are rather than to maximize exploitation of our weaknesses.
It’s quite straightforward to acknowledge that things like holy wars based on ideology have been with us for a long time.
It’s a straw man to suggest that anyone is saying “let’s abolish the tech giants and everything will be great”.
You say: “I believe that our unwillingness to face the deeper problem will prevent it from being solved.”
Can you articulate what this deeper problem actually is?