It’s crazy. Its worse than substance addiction. People would give up opioids, cigs and meth easier than delete their accounts. Tech bros can literally be complicit in genocide, crimes against minors and election tampering and people keep throwing their money and data at them.
It’s perfectly normal and you do it, too. Different people focus on different things. Nobody has the bandwidth to educate themselves about everything.
Ideally, we would trust people who focus on a topic, aka experts, so we could focus on our own interests. In reality, we just accept the easiest path for things we don’t have the time to focus on—that could be tech, fashion, food, sport, etc.
The problem is that people with a selfish profit motive have too much control over things that people want.
A majority of people really doesn’t mind at all doing transactions with a person drenched in blood and having a weapon in their hands with the innards of other people on it.
Extreme example just to make the point clear. Oftentimes it’s like ‘uh I’m inconvenienced’ as reasoning for choosing parking where emergency services could no longer get through or buying a product or using a service that is not only a detriment to us all but also with literal blood on their hands for the ugly dirty route.
Yeah, we all do it. But some things are much harder to navigate (eg: driving a car when you live in a car-first hell is hard to avoid) vs just not using Twitter.
Rich people and capitalism are a bigger problem that arguably is easier to solve, though, to your point.
People still use Meta. How can he conclude otherwise.
It’s crazy. Its worse than substance addiction. People would give up opioids, cigs and meth easier than delete their accounts. Tech bros can literally be complicit in genocide, crimes against minors and election tampering and people keep throwing their money and data at them.
He knows better than anyone how bad things are looking for Meta. And, he also knows how bad things are looking for AI.
He’s spouting bullshit, not conclusions.
It’s so frustrating how people just don’t care about things. Especially if they’re complicated or indirect.
They’ll be like “but there’s funny memes there” and I’m like there’s humor in all sorts of places. Blank stare.
It’s perfectly normal and you do it, too. Different people focus on different things. Nobody has the bandwidth to educate themselves about everything.
Ideally, we would trust people who focus on a topic, aka experts, so we could focus on our own interests. In reality, we just accept the easiest path for things we don’t have the time to focus on—that could be tech, fashion, food, sport, etc.
The problem is that people with a selfish profit motive have too much control over things that people want.
Yes, but:
A majority of people really doesn’t mind at all doing transactions with a person drenched in blood and having a weapon in their hands with the innards of other people on it.
Extreme example just to make the point clear. Oftentimes it’s like ‘uh I’m inconvenienced’ as reasoning for choosing parking where emergency services could no longer get through or buying a product or using a service that is not only a detriment to us all but also with literal blood on their hands for the ugly dirty route.
Yeah, we all do it. But some things are much harder to navigate (eg: driving a car when you live in a car-first hell is hard to avoid) vs just not using Twitter.
Rich people and capitalism are a bigger problem that arguably is easier to solve, though, to your point.