koprulusector
Joined 9 years ago
Joined 9 years ago
I don’t understand this mindset. Looking at numbers in a vacuum.
The labor market is literal wage slavery, with slaves being rented instead of owned.
This attitude of everyone for themselves is literally what’s wrong with this modern, disgusting “individualist” pull yourself up by the bootstraps society.
I know the rules here are to be civil, but I really don’t understand this “f you I got mine” mentality.
What blows my mind is how much engineering effort we collectively put into consumerism and business process, without taking a step back to the design phase and asking ourselves if we need a new architecture.
https://www.anyscale.com/blog/llama-2-is-about-as-factually-...
Yes, human beings have agency and are ultimately responsible and accountable for their decisions.
Human beings, like all living organisms, are complex systems. Social media, marketers and advertisers, among others, regularly manipulate and abuse such systems.
So, yes, while it is true that addiction is a spectrum, that spectrum applies to social media as much as it does with other addictions like sugar or amphetamines.
What your argument does is absolve those attempting to abuse such organic, complex systems for their own gain, regardless of the harm it promotes or directly causes.
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- Further, in case you're missing the peer reviewed, scientific studies of social media and addiction: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=scholarly+articles+soci...
The existing comments are interesting to read through, but those with information or expertise to contribute on this topic should consider submitting a public comment before August 25, 2023.