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to stop war we need to stop being lazy, greedy and most important: envy, which is impossible.

It isn’t all or nothing. The Cuban Missile Crisis should have led to war, but we stopped it. World War I never should have happened. The right answer is to acknowledge envy, greed, and laziness but find solutions to work around these problems.

I reported few instances last year, some companies fixed it, some other didn't even understand the problem (or ghosted me).

happiness is addictive. Solution is to replace with something completely different. Why not free hacking challenges / courses for teenagers?

it's like wondering why pubs or restaurants exists if I'm not visiting them everyday, but they do because they have other businesses (birthday parties, company events etc.). Look at Facebook for business.

wood is better than lead

or tv which was fine for years.


It's not fine at all? Before social media the average was 28 hours a week of viewing per person, obviously a non negligible percent of people watch TV for 100% of their free time.

Modern social media is even more addictive - always with you even when you're not home, short form, customized to your tastes, you can skip videos so you no longer need to feel any pain at all.


TV is not 100% curated for your personal tastes based on your previous interactions.

It was fine for years because it was a generic service in which everybody was forced to view the same content in the same way.

They are very very different things.


"make customer come back" - every (good) car dealer


customers pay for features, not bugfixes


justice system appears to be busy by wasting time


human CAN and computer CAN NEVER


Accountability is perhaps irrelevant is my point. You can turn off a computer, you can turn off a human. Is that accountability? Accountability only exists if there are consequences, and those consequences matter. What does it mean for them to "matter"?

If accountability is taking ownership for mistakes and correcting for improved future outcomes, certainly, I trust the computer more than the human. We are never running out of humans incurring harm within suboptimal systems that continue to allow it.


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