But why is that a problem? Doesn’t it suggest that maybe none of us should be trying to maintain utterly unmanageable social graphs, that technology magnified our context beyond our mental capacity?
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And the easiest way to do that isn't even obviously manipulative: it's just privileging amplification over attenuation. Even limited to a network of alters like facebook, the system tends towards waves of seizures.
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All the biggest networks play the balancing act well, where they increase the attentional costs in a way compensated for the dopamine hits. I don't see how you beat that with a *free* network.
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