This is a trap that everyone knows but is powerless to fight against fall

Norval 2022-04-22 07:01:39

Generally speaking, it is a good documentary. I have been criticizing the phenomenon before, and many parts are the same as some of my previous thoughts, such as:

It is believed that once an algorithm is linked to commercial interests, it will never have the possibility of complete self-correction; the algorithm expands the possibility of women being stared at by society and accelerates women's self-anxiety; people are naturally attracted to mysterious/stimulating/suspicious information, which It is also the reason why fake news/conspiracy theories spread 6 times faster than the truth; algorithms are evolving and information is exploding, but our brains are not evolving, too much information stimulation can make people lose their judgment; we all seem to be getting more and more The more personality you have, but this personality is formed by algorithms that continuously strengthen you against the weaknesses of human nature (the so-called personalized recommendation is to constantly push you in the direction you believe or like. manipulated to feed)

There are also some constructive comments in the back: for example, suggesting that the government legislate; or let the platform take responsibility; or self-control (turn off notifications, use search engines without search records, actively pay attention to people with different voices, control daily device use) time...); or delete social accounts;

But in general, it is rather reluctant to think that it is impossible to successfully counter the expansion of social media caused by technology companies. Because the capital needs it, the government also needs it, and those who hold most of the resources can easily manipulate it and become a powerful tool for profit-making and manipulating the majority of people.

It is undeniable that technology has brought a lot of convenience to most people, but once technology is controlled by interests and resources, it will not fundamentally serve most people; it is a pity that domestic technology companies do not have this kind of thinking and error correction ability. , the vast majority of product managers have brought the book "addiction" to the altar and become a must-read in the industry; there is almost no position as a design ethicist, and even if someone proposes this, it will not be really taken seriously. Values ​​have no place in business goals

At a time when most products are grabbing your attention, the more you should take it into your own hands

As a practitioner, I can only do my best to prevent the product I handle from becoming a member of the executioner. If I can't stop it, at least I can choose not to become an accomplice.

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  • Sydney 2022-01-03 08:01:47

    It may be Netflix's best documentary this year. Whether it is the public who have no clue or the staff in the Internet industry, they can get new inspiration from it. A fictional story combined with interviews with leaders and scholars in the Bay Area is also refreshing. Just fucking watch this right now! In addition, a lot of bad reviews are really hard-hit areas for male addiction...

  • Kristoffer 2022-03-26 09:01:08

    It is quite convincing to invite a group of former high-ranking social media officials to appear in person, and the progression of the narrative level is relatively clear, but it is very funny to simulate the virtual space operation by real people. There is no qualitative change in the evolution of the brain structure. In the unprecedented rapid development of science and technology, there is obviously some kind of unfortunate disconnection. However, if you think about it, if you take off this high-tech coat, isn't it another version across human history? Truman". The core ideas about being occupied by social platforms, distracting attention, and being easily misled by fake news are not original, but we should study how “algorithms” sneak into thinking from browsing traces/habits/time, accurately locate personal preferences under the blessing of big data, and invest in What it likes to push and guide until it changes the concept and mindset of real life, and achieves manipulation without revealing traces - "Any sufficiently advanced technology is similar to magic", it is still chilling to think about. After watching this film, I took a look at my screen usage time and froze again. Can we still wake up from the matrix?

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?