I have been working on a post in which I propose that the window for establishing healthy media consumption habits may be closing as content generation technologies advance, and make the suggestion that you GTFO before it’s too late.
I’m looking for push back on this thesis statement to try and strengthen my argument. All comments welcome.
But there’s also a chance future social networks are about to be much healthier and fulfilling, but simply weren’t possible with past technology. An upward trajectory.
The intuition there is that current ads are relatively inefficient at capturing value, as well as that current content algorithms optimize for short-term value creation/addiction rather than offering long term value. That’s the status quo, which, relative to what may be coming—ie relative to AI-powered semantic routing which could connect you to the content and products which long term would benefit you most—is a way smaller economy.
TLDR: more fulfilling social network economics would generate more money, and therefore become selected for once technically feasible.
I agree this stuff is addictive. AI makes things more interactive. Somepeople who never considered themselves vulnerable got sucked in to AI relationships.
Possible push back:
What if short bits of addictive content generated by humans (but selected by algorithms) are already near max addictiveness? And by the time AI can design/write a video game etc. twice as addictive than humans can design, we already have a superintelligence explosion, and either addiction is solved or we are dead?
I have been working on a post in which I propose that the window for establishing healthy media consumption habits may be closing as content generation technologies advance, and make the suggestion that you GTFO before it’s too late.
I’m looking for push back on this thesis statement to try and strengthen my argument. All comments welcome.
What exactly will happen to people who don’t “get out” in time?
I think GTFO is plausibly a good strategy.
But there’s also a chance future social networks are about to be much healthier and fulfilling, but simply weren’t possible with past technology. An upward trajectory.
The intuition there is that current ads are relatively inefficient at capturing value, as well as that current content algorithms optimize for short-term value creation/addiction rather than offering long term value. That’s the status quo, which, relative to what may be coming—ie relative to AI-powered semantic routing which could connect you to the content and products which long term would benefit you most—is a way smaller economy.
TLDR: more fulfilling social network economics would generate more money, and therefore become selected for once technically feasible.
I agree this stuff is addictive. AI makes things more interactive. Some people who never considered themselves vulnerable got sucked in to AI relationships.
Possible push back:
What if short bits of addictive content generated by humans (but selected by algorithms) are already near max addictiveness? And by the time AI can design/write a video game etc. twice as addictive than humans can design, we already have a superintelligence explosion, and either addiction is solved or we are dead?