That’s the whole idea of shorts and tiktok style though; rapidly consuming quick content.

I think its interesting that for some people, that experience is deeply uncomfortable, and for others its necessary. It may sound over the top but I see a lot of parallels to hard drug addiction.

Aren’t you simply saying we can’t be wrong about social constructs? Does that make them meaningless?

At a certain point aren’t we just making stuff up to make ourselves feel better? Obviously someone can be wrong about their own gender much the same as someone can be wrong that what they created is art.

Video games are more like a theme park set up by a group of people. Not all entertainment is art by default.

I dont think its a healthy thing to be able to focus on a single task for 12 hours straight.

Have you considered they dont need any of this technology to learn? That it might actually introduce confusion and distraction which will reduce attention and focus?

Oral lectures are going to become the standard again by a few years time, I bet.

The headline doesn’t match the article, they said personal computing was at risk of dieing.

What’s it like to get in that line of business? Some sort of schooling needed?

Wouldnt that just make him the 4 out of 5 part?

I’m starting to think ADHD just means an inability to match expectations with reality.

Yes, and if I spend too much time on here it affects my perceptions of people in real life. I do a few other things that aren’t really healthy as well. I’m sure I could do better.

Maybe, just maybe, parents shouldn’t let their kids in awful places, and also awful places shouldnt let kids in. Turns out parental controls are bullshit, and the only real answer is RTFM or dont use it at all. A business and its customers dont exist without each other, so the blame is on both sides.

All that said, the government definitely could help the parental understand and controls side of thing too using regulation.

Well, thats what you get when non-tech people try to regulate tech. At least we have correctly identified a problem, and are now trying to solve it.

Tech companies taking advantage of regulators lack of knowledge to continue abusing their customers is a different problem.

This solution might not work but we will learn and try something else or refine it until it does work, or until social media somehow isn’t predatory and doesnt need the guard rails.

Or we could focus on preventing the addiction to begin with.

Great examples include making people wait until adulthood to smoke nicotine or cannabis, or to drink alcohol.

Surely there’s always time for both the kids and parents to set aside to learn every new technology and the appropriate controls to restrict them.

And when someone says it makes far more sense to just not give their kids said technology until they are older, we have people like you arguing on behalf of the technology.

Aww poor little facebook, we dont want to hurt its fee-fees! Let’s just give it another chance! I’m sure we can trust it this time if we just learn how to use it right!

Social media does cause harm. It tricks you into thinking you are socializing with those near you when you aren’t. It tricks you into thinking people are talking in good faith, similar to in person communication. Finally, social media is a huge attack vector for scams and abuse due to the anonymity and ability to connect anywhere in the world.

All of these things produce an overwhelmingly negative social experience from social media. That wouldn’t be a problem if our defining trait wasn’t how we socialize in groups. Socializing is as important as water and food for humans.

Does an ld50 actually take into account the extreme ends or does it just not impact the result much?

You could see how that might be misleading though, to say that George Floyd was over the LD50 for fentanyl?

Fent bullet incoming.

I understand that, and thats probably a good rule for those who are naive to the medication. Tolerance does change the lethal amount on an individual basis so its hard to make statements on what would be lethal for a specific person though.