Decision making is our biggest stressor. My life would be a whole lot easier if I could outsource my decisions - and this is exactly what most of us are beginning to do. Youtube algorithms condense the choice between millions of videos to watch, and hands us just a few...
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Decision making algorithms are very old I think. More recently we’ve just made them digital and super high tech.
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Yeup. This links even simpler to why cults can come to form, and why people follow authorities blind. Things are easier if someone else can form your opinions for you
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The ability to make decisions on your own is also becoming more scarce in personal, social, and business relationships. Decisions can be hard but I think for the most part we make it difficult for ourselves. We put too much unnecessary weight into the consequences.
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Constant outsourcing will eventually diminish our intrinsic ability. As decisions are unavoidable, this would go down a vicious cycle until we're just passive blobs that have no agency. Obv extreme, but decision making is a skill that should be fostered.
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The more diverse and free information is the more "in control" we are of our decisions. Privacy is effectively lies/deception, so we want to avoid that as much as possible. But if you don't think your ideas are good yet, then you will simply keep them to yourself (in your brain).
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Privacy mitigates growth. But I totally understand why ideas of great potential must be kept private. Same reason we don’t want every human armed with nuclear power
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