happy and addicted

Leo 2022-04-22 07:01:39

I think the most impressive thing is that the algorithm of social media in the film has led to aggravation of political polarization. Regardless of the problem of data or statistics, this can really explain many problems very well. Because no matter how polarized you are, you don’t necessarily have to hit the streets every day and fight each other, right? It seems that it is not just some kind of dissatisfaction with society, but a deep psychological drive.

Psychology is indeed the deepest and most essential thing. Otherwise, why can you be happy if you have money or not? This is what we most need to know.

Switching to personal life, this can also bring some enlightenment.

In fact, simple psychology, or people's pursuit of "happiness". Either in the psychological (aka: occult) sense, or in the physiological sense of dopamine. But "happiness" has two sides. Because it can lead to "addiction". After "producing" addiction, if you can't get "happiness" within the psychologically expected time, you will have very negative psychological emotions.

Just thought, for example, there is something called "Happy" fat house water. People don't say "happiness" or "balance". Because in fact, everyone knows that "happiness" has two sides. The main ingredient of happiness may really be biological. Even the physical deceives the psychology --- if we assume that humans have an innocent (innocent) psychology to deceive.

Therefore, people still have to pursue a certain "balance". That is, happiness must be restrained and dispersed. For example, in addition to playing basketball, you should also engage in other sports. For example, when doing academics, you must also think about how happy you need to be, and whether you can accept a certain period of long-term lack of happiness.

Of course, when it comes to the film itself, it mainly talks about people's pursuit of "identity", because this thing can bring "happiness" (at least, the secretion of dopamine). Whether politically or physically. (The simple algorithm of social media is "positive reinforcement", which brings you "happiness" and makes you mistakenly think that the world you want to see is the whole world). Of course, in general, humans still have philosophical thoughts on this matter: you have to be yourself. Maybe I don't have too much difficulty on this issue personally, so I don't think too much about it. But as a social issue, this is obviously a very important topic.

Towards the end, Zuckerberg said: so, long term, the solution here is to build more AI tools that find patterns of people using the service that no real person would do. (Haha, this is so fake.)

A woman said: we are allowing the technologies to frame this as a problem that they're equipped to solve. ..., they don't have a proxy for truth that's better than a click.

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The Social Dilemma quotes

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

  • Self - Facebook, Former Operations Manager: We've created a system that biases towards false information. Not because we want to, but because false information makes the companies more money than the truth. The truth is boring.