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+ The Social Dilemma

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Notes

• Ok maybe these companies do know a shit ton about us

  • They actually keep track of how long you look at a post for? like I get retention rates but damn

• How it’s not our data being sold, but our thoughts and actions

  • Wanting to buy something, feeling attracted
  • Just like magicians, we can be unconsciously manipulated without our awareness
    • Recency bias

• Early game technological courses focused on persuasion through psychology

  • Examples
    • Refreshing feed provides new content everytime is a positive reinforcement
    • Saying your friend tagged you in a photo is irresistible
      • snapchat doesn’t show the message to get you to open the app
    • Filters make you look nicer so you’re more likely to share your apperance and feel nicer from a distorted appearance + support from other people

• Exploiting human psychology has been normalized

  • Creating addictions and algorithms selectively repeating it

• People who work on these programs still have trouble overcoming addictions wtf

• The mere act of socializing is dopamine

• Drop the phones and we can find out how society reacts

• We constantly and unnaturally rely on our social interactions with others for dopamine

  • I literally check discord so often recently
  • Check youtube notifications and analytics

• Suicide has increased from social media by 70-151%

• Social media has lowered risk-taking

  • Romantic relationships, driver license

• Social media is our digital pacifier for confronting reality

• Has resulted in immense polarization and bias

• Russia used facebook’s available features to rig the election? wut

• Social media can become an existensial crisis?

• We do not fully understand how these algorithms work

Practices

• Turn off notifications
• Don’t browse recommended
• No devices at a certian time
• Time budget

Thoughts/Questions

• Should I manipulate this consumer trend and learn about how to psychologically exploit people? Will I be able to live like that?
• Billionaires are actually a thing while I’m here putting so much effort into $1k scholarships

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Created:: 2021-08-28 01:08