"No one is a bad person." The makers of smart traps are like us, living individuals, designing "likes" and "recommendations" with humanitarian expectations, but these designs got out of control during the development process and became The traps are addictive, and even the trap designers themselves will fall into them. It can be seen that the real problem is not the person itself, but the structural root behind it. As mentioned in the film, what drives or operates the world today is economic rewards, so the solution to any problem must be in line with economic rewards, and economic rewards are the ultimate goal pursued by capitalism. All this structural problem lies in the capitalist system that Marx constantly criticizes, and the intelligence trap just once again demonstrates that capitalism itself is faltering and has a similar nature to the economic crises and workers' strikes caused by capitalism in the past.
At the same time, the legislative solution mentioned in the film is difficult to achieve in a real sense in capitalist countries, because the paradox is that the government needs to formulate legal provisions that are not conducive to capital accumulation, but the bourgeoisie controls regime.
At the end of the film, Harris said, "We are going to overthrow all of this." Too general and too powerless, and even unclear is that what we should overthrow is the technology and the tools themselves, or the system behind it that manipulates technology to achieve goals?
Excerpted inspiration points:
1. Polarization
-When will technology surpass humans to replace our jobs and be smarter than humans? When technology transcends human weakness.
The point of transcendence is addiction. Polarization, radicalization, intensification of anger, and intensification of weakness, the root of everything, is suppressing and checking human nature.
-Imagine the personalization of Wikipedia, Facebook, YouTube, and Google are like that
Truman's world of 2.7 billion:
Why do you think Truman has never been close to discover the true nature of the world he lives in?
-Pew survey: personal and political polarization reaches its highest level in 20 years
-People always think that what algorithms recommend is to give them what they really want, but they are not. The algorithm is actually trying to find several very powerful rabbit holes. Try to find which rabbit hole is closest to your interests.
-A typical case of PIZZAGATE conspiracy theory spreading on social media.
-We created a system that is biased towards false information, not because we want it, but because false information can make companies earn more money than real information. Real information is boring.
-If you want to control the people of your country, there has never been an effective tool like Facebook.
The most obvious case: what happened in Myanmar.
Facebook really gave soldiers and other bad people a new way to control public speech and helped inciting violence against Rohingya Muslims, which has led to 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing the country.
-Remote control of war, Russia's intervention in the 2016 U.S. election. It's just that the tools that are legally used by advertisers and users are used in evil places.
-Tribalism.
-Technology is not a threat to human survival, but the ability of technology to bring out the worst things in society. The worst things in society are the threats to human survival.
-We are likely to destroy our civilization because of deliberate ignorance.
-If you don't know that you are in the matrix, how do you wake up from the matrix?
legislation:
-Economic incentives can be said to operate the world, so any solution to this problem must be in line with economic incentives.
-Pay data collection and processing tax-do not have all the data.
-"No one is bad." The whole motivation of the like button: can we spread positivity and love in the world? But fast-forwarding to the present, teenagers will be depressed because they don’t get enough likes or political polarization will result.
-I don't think the motives of these people are evil, but there is a problem with this business model.
-What we should accept is that the company wants to make money, but what is unreasonable is that when there is no regulation to compete, the company is acting as the actual government department, and then they say "we can supervise ourselves."
Improve:
-Overthrow this system
-It is the critics who drive improvement, and the critics are the real optimists.
-You are using a click to vote, you click a phishing website, you are creating an economic reward to continue this existing system.
-Follow people you don’t agree with on Twitter.
-Before you share, look up the facts and think about the source of the information.
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