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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Feb 28
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    I worry that social media has gotten some people addicted to the feeling of being involved in a crisis. To the extent that demand for crises exceeds supply, crises can be either manufactured or pulled out of the dark matter of unfortunate events happening in the world daily.

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      2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Feb 28
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        "Is he subtweeting coronavirus?" No, but I am reasonably sure that I remember three months ago, and the people who are absolutely certain coronavirus is the biggest problem in the world today don't seem to have obviously changed in tenor from three months ago.

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      3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Feb 28
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        There a lot of wisdom in:pic.twitter.com/Rt2mwinMta

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      2. Eric Lewis‏ @ericlewis Feb 28
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        One could argue that there are enough terrible events happening everyday that no one needs to manufacture them, which is an even darker outlook.

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      3. Rhett Barrett‏ @HeyRhettBarrett Feb 29
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        There have always been, but we just didn’t have access to reports of all the worlds terrible events on a minute-to-minute basis

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      1. Nerd curious abt psychology  🧠‏ @ClayNichols Feb 29
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        Modern people have needed a dopamine hit for decades now. We are insulated from our biology (no need to grow food, walk outdoors, etc.). We get our dopamine where we can now:. Social Media has succeeded, in part, because it fills that need.

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      2. Kevin Yien‏ @kevinyien Feb 29
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        Any effective countermeasures you can think of? Unfortunately seems part of human nature as attention seeking creatures...

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      3. Shane Burkhart‏ @Shane__Burkhart Feb 29
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        Make most impactful problems more attractive for that audience. Why does this audience care about one crisis over another? Probably information gap

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      1. Nerd curious abt psychology  🧠‏ @ClayNichols Feb 29
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        BTW, have you read Seveneves by @nealstephenson ? SPOILER One plot point is that a social media argument results in the near extermination of the entire human race (we're left with 7 people).

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      1. Shane Burkhart‏ @Shane__Burkhart Feb 29
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        Maybe the idea should be to make existing crisis more accessible to fill demand. Surely there are enough problems for people to be in on.

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      2. Stefano Vettorazzi‏ @stefanohablando Feb 28
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        I think that the same happened before social media with people that religiously watched/read the news. And it still happens, at least in the West.

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      3. Nick Ribal @  🇪🇸‏ @elektronik2k5 Feb 28
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        Not only in the West. Media everywhere manufactures sensationalism because it sells so well. And lots of people are addicted to this shit.

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