alt Hacker News"It doesn't work", therefore, tyranny? Because the most important thing in the world is the state ensuring people not make bad choices? So any time the system tries something to stop them and it "doesn't work", that's a justification for increasing state power until it works?
We're talking about words and images. Addiction cannot enter the body through the eyes and ears.
Enjoy your doubleplus goodthink.
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pixl97 • yesterday at 3:00 PM
>Addiction cannot enter the body through the eyes and ears.
Please tell me what planet your from, 'cause it ain't earth.
-Addiction is a reinforcement-learning pathology driven by dopaminergic reward circuits. Sensory input alone can trigger it.
Please for god sake learn about how addiction actually works.
> Because the most important thing in the world is the state ensuring people not make bad choices
So you think it's fine to cheat or con somebody? Just a bad choice by the person conned?
The key thing you are missing here is that companies like Google and facebook aren't some passive actor just 'placing choices' before people.
The allegation is they are were actively working to knowingly harm for their own interests.
You pretend to be advocating for a world full of individual responsibility - yet somehow that doesn't extend to the actions of large companies or the people who run them.....