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Re:“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction” by bordercases on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @11:44AM (#26155790)
"Objective absolute indifferent thing, has bias towards patchy intersubjective historically situated thing" sounds a lot less catchy when you unpack it.
Re:“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction” by wizzwizz4 on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @02:57PM (#26158052)
It's a joke. Mainstream right-wing socioeconomic theories are falsified by reality more often than mainstream left-wing socioeconomic theories. (Of course, left-wing v.s. right-wing is a bad way to judge a socioeconomic theory; better to check whether it's right.)