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Wednesday, 13 December 2017
quote [ “Your behaviors—you don’t realize it but you are being programmed. It was unintentional, but now you gotta decide how much you are willing to give up, how much of your intellectual independence,” he told the students in the crowd. “And don’t think, ‘Oh yeah, not me, I’m fucking genius, I’m at Stanford.’ You’re probably the most likely to fucking fall for it. ‘Cause you are fucking check-boxing your whole Goddamn life.” ]
The dopamine hit issue is just the foundation of concerns in my mind, because being played up in all of that is the information you're being exposed to, what you're being trained to accept as normal. The consequences of that much information being shaped for the masses only grows the more invasive the technology becomes. #VR
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midden said @ 9:13pm GMT on 13th December
Yup. I've mostly withdrawn from even the limited Pavlovian online interaction I used to do. (How is it that my karma ranking has stayed #10 for the last few months of nearly zero posting/commenting activity?)
The thing so many of the commenters on Gizmodo seem to miss is the difference between the way TV feeds you shit and the way social media gives you direct, frequent, unpredictable feedback in patterns optimized to rewire your brain. It's insanely powerful and generally well below the threshold of awareness. It really is levels of magnitude more influential than old-school linear consumption of tv programming and advertising. Add the ever increasing tendency to segregate into self-reinforcing peer groups and our hardwired confirmation biases, and you've got a recipe for serious social fragmentation.
I'm seriously wondering if as a species, we may revert back to more of a city-state based society, not just socially but physical proximity wise, as well, due to changes in our communication abilities. There's one county in Alabama that voted 79% for Moore. Not surprisingly, the are overwhelmingly Southern Baptists/Methodist, and they are less that 0.5% African American. And it's not just Alabama. Look at the county level voting records in any state over the last few decades and you can see how we are segregating and fragmenting our society.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_County,_Alabama
Interesting times.
midden said @ 10:54pm GMT on 13th December
Yup. I've mostly withdrawn from even the limited Pavlovian online interaction I used to do. (How is it that my karma ranking has stayed #10 for the last few months of nearly zero posting/commenting activity?)
The thing so many of the commenters on Gizmodo seem to miss is the difference between the way TV feeds you shit and the way social media gives you direct, frequent, unpredictable feedback in patterns optimized to rewire your brain. It's insanely powerful and generally well below the threshold of awareness. It really is levels of magnitude more influential than old-school linear consumption of tv programming and advertising. Add the ever increasing tendency to segregate into self-reinforcing peer groups and our hardwired confirmation biases, and you've got a recipe for serious social fragmentation.
I'm seriously wondering if as a species, we may revert back to more of a city-state based society, not just socially but physical proximity wise, as well, due to changes in our communication abilities. There's one county in Alabama that voted 83% for Moore. Not surprisingly, the are overwhelmingly Southern Baptists/Methodist, and they are less that 0.5% African American. And it's not just Alabama. Look at the county level voting records in any state over the last few decades and you can see how we are segregating and fragmenting our society.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_County,_Alabama
Interesting times.
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midden said @ 9:13pm GMT on 13th December
Yup. I've mostly withdrawn from even the limited Pavlovian online interaction I used to do. (How is it that my karma ranking has stayed #10 for the last few months of nearly zero posting/commenting activity?)
The thing so many of the commenters on Gizmodo seem to miss is the difference between the way TV feeds you shit and the way social media gives you direct, frequent, unpredictable feedback in patterns optimized to rewire your brain. It's insanely powerful and generally well below the threshold of awareness. It really is levels of magnitude more influential than old-school linear consumption of tv programming and advertising. Add the ever increasing tendency to segregate into self-reinforcing peer groups and our hardwired confirmation biases, and you've got a recipe for serious social fragmentation.
I'm seriously wondering if as a species, we may revert back to more of a city-state based society, not just socially but physical proximity wise, as well, due to changes in our communication abilities. There's one county in Alabama that voted 83% for Moore. Not surprisingly, the are overwhelmingly Southern Baptists/Methodist, and they are less that 0.5% African American. And it's not just Alabama. Look at the county level voting records in any state over the last few decades and you can see how we are segregating and fragmenting our society.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_County,_Alabama
Interesting times.
