Tuesday 9 July 2019

Lori on Loneliness

This makes me sad! 😥 See Loneliness.


And in this post, On the Psyche and Why Mathematics Works, I made a first attempt to connect ideas about how we should be using algorithms and social media to connect people three dimensionally. This is what I think Lori is referring to: At 1 minute 43 secs


But of course the NSA are using this to disconnect people like me who they see as some sort of threat. See Hannah Fry on Networks and Control. And in cities like Berlin, it is the whole culture of the population that is seen as a threat to stability. See Property Developers Redistributing People With Ideas.

So what Lori means by "three dimensional people" is social networking which looks for dates, friends, business partners, new jobs, new career directions, housing, interesting holidays, new clothes, hairstyles, investment opportunities, make-up, movies, flash-mob events near you and new recipes for the stuff you have in your fridge and who to invite over for dinner that evening, all at the same time. But people like  Mark Zuckerberg don't seem to be able to understand how you can make hundreds of billions of dollars of profit doing stuff like like this. From this Wired article Mark Zuckerberg's Answer to A World Divided By Facebook is, ... "More Facebook":
"If you continue giving people voice and work to create a diversity of ideas and common understanding and strengthen the social fabric," he says, not directly answering the question, "then over the long term we will go in the right direction regardless if you disagree on short-term things."
Yeah, Mark, and if you carry on and on and on fucking them over, then what happens?

At 6 mins 45 secs, Karen Dolva "You would think that, by 2017, we would have figured out how to properly connect people, ..."


It is even worse than that. There is clinical evidence that Facebook's brain-damaged, brain-damaging software is a large part of what lies behind the opioid crisis.


And because scientists can't connect to each other, they don't have any decent ideas about what to do about it. See Helena Norberg-Hodge on Healthy Personal Identity, and Helena Norberg-Hodge on Economics and Human Knowledge. But pharmaceutical companies can spot a market, ...


This is John Sarnow's book "Healing Back Pain" which Lori mentions.

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