Hank: people will not be educated out of responding to fear and righteous superiority (2021)
prediction · status: unresolved · last event: predicted (2021-10-07) · owner: Hank
In October 2021 Hank predicted that people will not be educated out of responding to fear and indulging righteous superiority, while arguing that Facebook is not bad only because humans make bad decisions. No later video checks it.
Told alongside: Hank: manufactured online discourse may work less as people grow more aware of it (2021)
About: fear, self-righteousness
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-07 | predicted | 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
6 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2021-10-07 · We're Thinking About Facebook Wrong — The description adds that righteous superiority and fear work best on people who struggle with self-worth, especially those denied expected status, and the two almost always go hand in hand. — video description
- 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