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What will happen if we don’t get a handle on our declining cognitive health? The former Google design ethicist Tristan Harris told US Congress in 2019 that billions of people – “a psychological footprint about the size of Christianity” – now receive their information from platforms whose business model “links their profit to how much attention they capture, creating a ‘race to the bottom of the brain stem’ to extract attention by hacking lower into our lizard brains – into dopamine, fear, outrage – to win”.

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What will happen if we don’t get a handle on our declining cognitive health? The former Google design ethicist Tristan Harris told US Congress in 2019 that billions of people – “a psychological footprint about the size of Christianity” – now receive their information from platforms whose business model “links their profit to how much attention they capture, creating a ‘race to the bottom of the brain stem’ to extract attention by hacking lower into our lizard brains – into dopamine, fear, outrage – to win”.
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Dean Burnett (that brains guy) (garwboy@ohai.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 05:28:29 JST Dean Burnett (that brains guy)
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Ah, well, maybe I'm wrong actually. I'm just a basic bog-standard neuroscientist of 20+ years experience. What do I know about how the brain works, when compared to a... [squints] "Google Design Ethicist"?
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