Free is the most expensive

Deshaun 2022-04-19 09:02:22

If there is no charge for this service, then you are the product being sold.

The Internet era seems to bring more anxiety, deprive attention, energy and time, and select customized content through the information screening mechanism to trap people in the information cocoon. You think you see a wider sky, but in fact Just a frog at the bottom of a well at the mercy of others. Even various online platforms even covered the manhole cover with the theory of nipple music, and used the most precious concentration and time to buy tickets to the world of Truman, thinking that what you see when you look up is the truth, which is sad and deplorable. Let me ask, are smart devices a tool for human beings, or are humans just slaves to smart devices? Think about it, every piece of information you receive is the result of an algorithm, Taobao, Zhihu, Douyin... Almost all social software reads your information all the time, and every inconspicuous function and interface Designs are dedicated to depriving you of time, and more importantly, to grab attention, inadvertently rewriting the cognition in your mind, and thinking about it will send a chill down your spine. Is there anything scarier than the manipulation of the mind?

Identifying problems is more important than solving them. Smart devices are not a monster, but we should let them return to their essence, and let tools be tools, not masters. If the platform is socially responsible, I think it will be much simpler, but the purpose of the existence of enterprises is to make profits, and it may not be happy to do so. So the documentary proposes regulation, which is a good way...

Anyway, stay awake, there is no such thing as a free lunch, and if it is free, it must have taken something more expensive.

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  • Darryl 2022-03-26 09:01:08

    Good point , let's cancelnetflix

  • Kenton 2022-03-25 09:01:12

    The expression is a bit sensational, but the meaning is that

The Social Dilemma quotes

  • Justin Rosenstein - Facebook, Former Engineer: We live in a world in which a tree is worth more, financially, dead than alive, in a world in which a whale is worth more dead than alive. For so long as our economy works in that way and corporations go unregulated, they're going to continue to destroy trees, to kill whales, to mine the earth, and to continue to pull oil out of the ground, even though we know it is destroying the planet and we know that it's going to leave a worse world for future generations. This is short-term thinking based on this religion of profit at all costs, as if somehow, magically, each corporation acting in its selfish interest is going to produce the best result. This has been affecting the environment for a long time. What's frightening, and what hopefully is the last straw that will make us wake up as a civilization to how flawed this theory has been in the first place, is to see that now we're the tree, we're the whale. Our attention can be mined. We are more profitable to a corporation if we're spending time staring at a screen, staring at an ad, than if we're spending that time living our life in a rich way. And so, we're seeing the results of that. We're seeing corporations using powerful artificial intelligence to outsmart us and figure out how to pull our attention toward the things they want us to look at, rather than the things that are most consistent with our goals and our values and our lives.

  • Tristan Harris - Google, Former Design Ethicist: How do you wake up from the Matrix when you don't know you're in the Matrix?