Hank: manufactured online discourse may work less as people grow more aware of it (2021)
prediction · status: unresolved · last event: repeated (2021-10-07) · owner: Hank
In June 2021 Hank suggested that manufactured online discourse may work less as people grow more aware of it through time spent on the platforms.
Told alongside: Hank: people will not be educated out of responding to fear and righteous superiority (2021)
About: moral outrage
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-04 | predicted | Maybe such manufactured discourse will work less as we become more aware of it, which happens as we spend more time on the platforms. (hedged) | Is Twitter Redeemable? 00:03:18 |
| 2021-10-07 | repeated | Hank thinks we won't educate people out of responding to fear and indulging righteous superiority, though there are some signs that maybe immunities kick in; but Facebook cannot be called bad only because humans make bad decisions. | We're Thinking About Facebook Wrong 00:19:28 |
What is said about it
7 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2021-06-04 · Is Twitter Redeemable? — Hank: As new communication media arrive, such as radio, books or plays, we develop cultural structures to handle them without tearing society apart, and they end up net goods: nobody wants a world without books. — 00:03:25
- 2021-06-04 · Is Twitter Redeemable? — Hank: A majority of Hank believes that is possible for the internet, but no piece of him understands how we'll get there, which is uncomfortable. — 00:03:45
- 2021-10-07 · We're Thinking About Facebook Wrong — ask: Hank encourages all computer scientists to work on getting platforms to recognize when they promote societally or personally destructive content. — 00:20:14
- 2021-10-07 · We're Thinking About Facebook Wrong — Hank says it would be very hard for Facebook to make a profit in a world completely ripped apart by Facebook. — 00:20:20
- 2021-10-07 · We're Thinking About Facebook Wrong — Hank doesn't know what legislators should do, but opposes making platforms responsible for everything posted, which would end them, and favors holding them responsible for what they promote. — 00:20:30
- 2021-10-07 · We're Thinking About Facebook Wrong — Hank doesn't know if the world would be better without the many-to-many communication system, but knows his life would be very different without it. (unsure) — 00:20:50
- 2021-10-07 · We're Thinking About Facebook Wrong — Hank says in 20 or 30 years we will look back at the way things are now and find it quaint, clunky and hilariously bad. — 00:21:05