But if you “learned the shortcuts to hide” what you were doing, then you were clearly accessing things you actively wanted to see, which was my entire point.
What I wanted to see was “the world”, you know? That drive to explore and pursue novelty we talked about? Think it’s a pretty universal experience, and one companies have absolutely learned to prey on. I don’t think yearning to know the unknown is quite equivalent to actively wanting to see anything specific, and you seem like a smart enough guy to be aware of the ways companies abuse that curiousity. That people, children or not, are only shown things they actively want to see is measurably, provably not true. We go down rabbitholes and off on tangents and towards intensity and in all kinds of directions all kinds of people have all kinds of motivations for influencing
Alright, I agree with you that modern “social media recommendation algorithms” are a bad thing that shouldn’t have been invented, if that is what you’re getting at.
I definitely agree with all of that.
But if you “learned the shortcuts to hide” what you were doing, then you were clearly accessing things you actively wanted to see, which was my entire point.
Not like alt-tab is rocket surgery :p
What I wanted to see was “the world”, you know? That drive to explore and pursue novelty we talked about? Think it’s a pretty universal experience, and one companies have absolutely learned to prey on. I don’t think yearning to know the unknown is quite equivalent to actively wanting to see anything specific, and you seem like a smart enough guy to be aware of the ways companies abuse that curiousity. That people, children or not, are only shown things they actively want to see is measurably, provably not true. We go down rabbitholes and off on tangents and towards intensity and in all kinds of directions all kinds of people have all kinds of motivations for influencing
Alright, I agree with you that modern “social media recommendation algorithms” are a bad thing that shouldn’t have been invented, if that is what you’re getting at.