The Violence thread

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"Few things activate the dopamine system more than the prospects of righteously punishing somebody else."
- Robert Sapolsky

He's correct, the algorithms are a little skew whiff at the moment, that's what happens when you build systems organically with out thought for how it works as a whole.
It's not the platform owners fault they could not envisage how it work out in the end, (bit like our present civilisation and global warming).

But these issues are being looked at by some of the best minds in the world, some of these researchers are looking to turn social media into a global mind, just got to root out some of the individuals whom are a bit too tribal or at least put in some safeguards, Can't have a global mind that thinks wiping out a group is a good idea can we? or even keeping the status quo?

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He's correct, the algorithms are a little skew whiff at the moment, that's what happens when you build systems organically with out thought for how it works as a whole.
It's not the platform owners fault they could not envisage how it work out in the end, (bit like our present civilisation and global warming).

But these issues are being looked at by some of the best minds in the world, some of these researchers are looking to turn social media into a global mind, just got to root out some of the individuals whom are a bit too tribal or at least put in some safeguards, Can't have a global mind that thinks wiping out a group is a good idea can we? or even keeping the status quo?

I think you missed the part about the process addicition. It's about much more than if the content is good or bad. It's the technology itself, the process itself that is addictive. The way the light of the screens hits the eyes and triggers the visual cortex. The way links and notifications are designed to give the brain a flood of dopamine, making you feel a compulsion to look, to click. It's designed this way on purpose. The technology hacks the human brain to keep your attention for as long as possible. The brain quickly becomes addicted to the dopamine rushes like what happens to a compulsive gambler who can't stop pulling the lever on a slot machine. As Sapolsky says, nothing causes a dopamine rush like the word "Maybe."

https://innerself.com/content/video-...en-kotler.html

"We see the same thing with social media, right. Simon Sinek famously says if you wake up in the morning and you’re checking your phone before you’re saying hello to your spouse that’s an addictive behavior. And it’s dopamine that is driving that addiction. So what happens with social media is, Robert Sapolsky who did the foundational research on this at Stanford calls it the magic of maybe. When you look at your phone and maybe there’s a text there and maybe there’s not and you don’t know. When it shows up, that high you get, that’s dopamine. It’s the magic of maybe. Maybe it’ll be there, maybe it won’t. When it shows up you get a 400 percent spike in dopamine. That is roughly the same amount of dopamine as you’re getting from cocaine. It’s slightly less than an extremely addictive drug like cocaine. And that’s what’s happening."

And for every moment that a person's attention is affixed to a glass screen, that person is not attending to real life and human relationships right next to them. After awhile they lose the necessary social skills that took millions of years to develop. For people growing up addicted to this technology, they never acquire the skills in the first place.

Again, social media in and of itself, regardless of content, causes mental addiction.

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Love this guy, puts in a nut shell nice-ly

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Love this guy, puts in a nut shell nice-ly

Good find, Mike.