1/ I do this sometimes even though I know better. Technology *does* cause harm and basically anything used chronically *does* cause brain changes, but if you think over the counterfactuals, that sharp boundary blurs into non-existence. https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1067419027935555617 …
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2/ For one, nothing about our present environment is "natural" so a lot of this ends "pathologization" up being hard to distinguish from the latest issue of GOOP. Fuck, the whole point of our big brains is that their isn't really a "natural state," evolutionary psych be damned.
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3/ But, more importantly, if you were able to rerun history absent one specific technology, you'd usually be (but should not be) shocked to find the harm reproduces in another form. - People adapt; - People use technology to adapt; - Maladaptation is extremely multicausal.
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4/ And, when you (and I) catastrophize a particular technology as if it were the whole puzzle, you make it harder to attenuate the facilitated harm while even recognizing the broader causes.
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Yea, I think that's a good partition. People see the supernormal stimuli and think it activates some archaic FAP that dooms us all. Or, the see the down-stream effects and use accounting that credits the technology and the technology alone.
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