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Re:Is Facebook a Structural Threat to Free Society? by ambulancechaser on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @12:45PM (#13869100)
Is this a pessimistic view of Facebook or of people?
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Re:Is Facebook a Structural Threat to Free Society? by DanielBMarkham on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @12:51PM (#13869169)
The answer is "yes". It's both.

The argument I made in my essay eight or nine years ago is still true, it's just gotten worse: technology continues to evolve to hack into the human brain in order to commandeer its attention, not assist it.

If you want to look at it in terms of predator-prey relationships, right now we have a predator evolving to eat the most valuable finite resource on the planet, the attention span of the apex lifeforms. So far it looks to be running the tables.

http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2009/02/technology-is...

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Re:Is Facebook a Structural Threat to Free Society? by 0xdeadbeefbabe on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @01:51PM (#13869766)
The computers are programming the humans.
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Re:Is Facebook a Structural Threat to Free Society? by harveywi on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @05:08PM (#13871492)
Humans are using computers to program other humans. Used to be humans using TV to program other humans.
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Re:Is Facebook a Structural Threat to Free Society? by 0xdeadbeefbabe on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @05:17PM (#13871565)
Awww so optimistic. Haven't you seen that tshirt with the caveman nobley striding followed by the hunched computer programmer?
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