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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Extended Reading
  • Icie 2022-03-27 09:01:12

    I have already thought about the extinction of mankind. A few years ago, I thought about not contributing to the extinction of mankind, but now I have followed his grandmother's way. If the old does not go and the new does not come, and human beings do not become extinct, how can there be a better species to replace us?

  • Ruthie 2022-03-26 09:01:08

    After all, this movie reminding everyone to be wary of all kinds of spam manipulated by artificial intelligence is not itself a piece of junk information that is cobbled together by artificial intelligence algorithms... Considering that only illiterate people will believe these things , I guess this movie must be popular, after all, on the Internet, illiterate people who don't understand the Internet like to force it loudly. Finally, one star to the Western democracy in the movie that is said to be destroyed by the Internet, haha, come on.

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?