Psychologists Examine Downside of Social Media Algorithms
news.utdallas.edu
By Stephen Fontenot  | While social media algorithms have become excellent at matching a user’s viewing habits with targeted, personalized content, psychologists at The University of Texas at Dallas have determined that these algorithms may have a negative influence on a user’s mental health. Dr. Alva Tang, assistant professor of psychology in the School of Behavioral […]
  • MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish
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    6 days ago

    we need to stop tolerating the kinds of selfish behaviors that prove detrimental to every society that permits them.

    The “why would we need it” question was intended as rhetorical.

    I feel that as society grows orders of magnitude larger, these overall detrimental selfish behaviors keep resurfacing as advantages in special niches where they flourish, with the potential as you say to strangle us in the crib.

    There’s also the looming spectre of mandatory birth control, if the magically predicted end of population growth doesn’t happen we’re going to have to do something to lessen our resource demands on the planet, because we’re already significantly degrading it far more than previous generations with 1/4th and less of our current population which simultaneously made much lower per-capita resource demands…