i don't mean to spread bad vibes on the TL but this is grotesque. these people are destroying their children
not happy that there isn't a single word of a quote in this article *from the kids themselves* either but maybe the parents blocked it
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there was a tweet on the TL earlier about PUA and another tweet about gacha games and it's all kinda the same thing. "goodhart's demon." optimize for a proxy of the thing you actually want so hard that it turns you into a monster
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capitalism is like how speedrunning lets you find all the weird bugs in a game except it's bugs in human psychology and it's incredibly tragic instead of funny
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I don't have a coherent thought yet, but it feels like there's an explanation that weaves together "the viral nature of trauma", reward hacking, and deontology vs virtue ethics
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