- People who trust the system do not spend much time researching
- Intermittent Variable Reinforcement
- Abusers veer all over making them unpredictable and alluring
- Self-esteem is a gauge of how much we are accepted and valued by our peers
- Facebook subsidizes mobile data charges in developing countries
- Silicon Valley took “anti-social drop-out” to mean “genius”
- The core ideal is, “free, unfiltered speech.”
- While young male gamers?
- In the 80’s, the American video gaming industry collapsed
- Reagan cancelled regulation that prohibited advertising to children
- Toy companies started pushing gender self-engagement
- Japanese game companies picked boys because parents spend more money on them
- Larger social groups tend to become more violent and strengthen hierarchy enforcement
- Twitter started as a text message rely service
- Morality is emotionally triggered, not rationally triggered
- Global shaming can easily spin out of control
- Domesticated animals have shorter tails, softer ears, shorter faces, and a star-shaped pattern on their forehead
- Communication allowed for the “tyranny of the cousins”
- Moral signaling scales with audience size
- Machine Learning built SPAM filters that were better than any human built filters
- ML super-powered YouTube’s algorithms
- Additionally, Google set a goal to 10x view in several years around the 2020 election
- Humans tend to accept things that are similar to things we have already accepted
- (This is why Slippery Slope fallacy gets so dangerous)
- Repetition makes things more believable (and comforting)
- Mashing together people who disagree does not boost tolerance
- You have to compel them to engage together
- Having user comments adds a social context to media that detaches our rationality
- People generally do not want to share misinformation, but want to be social; once they decide to share, they decide it must be true
- Motivation, attention, design
- Moral words overwhelm almost regardless of the context
- Morality is actually tied to what we thing our peers think
- We use a subset of people, social referents, as a short cut
- “If <insert name> hates it then it must be bad”
- “Everyone feels this way”
- YouTube recommendations really quickly go to the fringe and never come back (because these illicit the most responses)
- For the algorithms, watching is endorsing
- Terrorism is in part a theatrical display
- Citizen movement has dropped as Social Media raised
- “We’re a society, not just a market.”
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