Why become a social animal

Spencer 2022-03-24 09:02:27

The original intention of the birth of the Internet is to create a better world. It is the nature of capital to pursue profit, and there is a lack of relevant legal norms. The wild development along the way has become a caged bird unconsciously. The inherent contradiction of capitalism, capitalism is promoting The rapid development of productive forces is also accumulating the power of their own negation, and once it erupts, it will cause great destruction. We are called users and software has become a mental drug. Human society has attracted a lot of attention by software, which affects family and work. The whole society is surrounded by it. Our biggest enemy is no longer beasts, wars, and viruses. . It is the supercomputer created by ourselves that uses the free advertising-paid business model combined with the intelligent deep learning algorithm to make us unable to extricate ourselves and fall into various information cocoons without knowing it. Disrupting democracy by replacing the state with the enterprise, no one is innocent under the Matthew effect, and all shareholder and manager rewards do not allow themselves to defeat themselves, they can only accept the moment of sudden demise. The information in this world no longer reminds us of our true feelings and meaningful values. Through the business model of the media, the final value is directed to another world. The market cannot meet the needs of consumers, and even the market will never meet them. Anyone's needs have nothing to do with reality, some are only phenomena. Otherwise, it is impossible to explain the increasingly empty heart. The values ​​of all people are distorted, we are alienated at work, and in reality, even the time we have is subtly alienated. Our values ​​are defined, and we are social animals to some extent.

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  • Amparo 2022-04-23 07:03:01

    There will not be too many possible information breakthroughs and subversions that are concerned about the threat of social media, but it is still worth watching at the moment. The virtual paragraphs performed by real actors are not very necessary, and it feels a bit time-stretching.

  • Einar 2022-03-25 09:01:12

    Bernard Stigler: “Nineteenth-century capitalism “proletarianizes” workers through machines; twentieth-century consumer capitalism “proletarianizes” consumers by depriving people of their autonomous way of life. Great Data exacerbates this situation because not only knowledge, we also hand over our memories to machines. Big data is fully automated data analysis that produces automated, high-speed systems of understanding, but it is machine-based understanding , rather than human rationality. If big data is to play a positive role, it should give humans more time to think about how humans and technology can better coexist, which is to slow down, not the other way around , to urge human beings to make quick decisions. In that case, human beings have no future.”

The Social Dilemma quotes

  • Tristan Harris - Google, Former Design Ethicist: How do you wake up from the Matrix when you don't know you're in the Matrix?

  • Self - Facebook, Former Operations Manager: We've created a system that biases towards false information. Not because we want to, but because false information makes the companies more money than the truth. The truth is boring.