"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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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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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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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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Any effective countermeasures you can think of? Unfortunately seems part of human nature as attention seeking creatures...
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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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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).Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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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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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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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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