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reddit.comEight cognitive biases social media takes advantage of
how tech companies encourage behavioral addiction: intermittent positive reinforcement and the drive for social approval.
Cal Newport • Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
The dopamine of likes and follows is now the dopamine of felt productivity, validation, and intellectual partnership. Attention shapes everything downstream from it — what we think, create, and become. We're just learning to guard it from social feeds, and now we’re confronted with AI targeting both our attention and something deeper: our intention... See more
In a 2017 interview, Ev Williams (the founder of Twitter), said something that has stuck with me since: “the trouble with algorithms, is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and see a car crash. Of course you look. Everyone looks. The internet interprets behavior like this to mean everyone is asking for car crashes, so it trie... See more