“Without our daily (hourly?) dose of attention, many of us, and certainly most compulsive creators, start to feel the pangs of dopamine thirst. We reach for our phone. We post. This is classically-presenting addiction shit.” Guilty—I am a Twitter addict.https://www.piratewires.com/p/dopamine-thirst-trap …
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I am writing about sociable protocols and I love
@micsolana’s thinking here but not his proposed solutions.
fwiw, i was really just trying to stress the problem — virality, rather than wrong ideas — with these proposals. agree they’re extreme, but hoped that would shock readers into thinking about this in a new way.
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Oh I absolutely love the highlighting. What I hope to do in my post is highlight how solutions might emerge from protocols with open state. Email has healthy competition because it is a protocol. Social has no such thing. I think the ground is fertile for something to emerge.
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I agree, but I also think folks working on decentralized solutions need to tread carefully. We might wind up with a system will all the same negative externalities, but without an off switch, nor anyone to lobby to reform it.
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