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cwmoore 6 hours ago

Hmm... technology sure seems to create, or at least to expose, a lot of societal problems, and does solve a lot of problems in exchange for a lot of money. Not sure the true rule is as stated.

raffael_de 4 hours ago | parent [-]

care to provide examples?

9x39 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Social media exposes weakpoints in human nature - mob mentalities, comparisons of global norms over local ones. People died and many more are likely disturbed and divided.

India comes to mind as some of the earliest worst-case examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_WhatsApp_lynchings

I buy into teen mental health tanking correlating with the rise of mobile social media in 2012: https://archive.is/frHnA

I think there's probably far more powerful but hard to describe and prove effects out there in play by connecting to a global async awareness network, but I'll leave it there.

cwmoore 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

No, not really. I’m just questioning the axiomatic statement.