The YouTube-rabbit-hole phenomenon will undoubtedly continue to radicalize certain individuals. But give it time, let the churn machine keep churning.
This isn’t the first time this has happened in video game research.
Still, the universe is full of things that seem irrefutably evident and yet can’t be well explained or understood.
Essays attacking the left- or right-wing bias of this or that media outlet are, of course, old hat in my business.
Moreover, the conclusion that harassment drives women from physics contradicts publicly available data on the progression of women in physics careers.
Men have been dying at higher rates than women over time, and the gap appears to be constant.
Instead of empty analogies, the only way to survive change is to have a vigorous debate about the merits of our new ideas—precisely the kind of debate that techno-optimists want to foreclose by appealing to history.
Some might claim that electric power is far more of a necessity that social media access.
The more rapid and intense the brain reward they imparted, the likelier they were to foster pathological learning and craving, particularly among socially and genetically vulnerable consumers.
One of the big questions in evolutionary biology is: what drove our evolution from tree-swinging apes to bipedal, highly intelligent homonins that went on to build civilization and inherit the world?
Unfortunately, St. Edmund’s College did the bidding of the protestors, launched two separate investigations and last month terminated Noah Carl’s employment.
Sending millions more people to clinicians, creating a society even more fearful of lurking diseases, and systematically robbing people of the normal arc of life and death–this, I am afraid, is where the digital health expansion is heading.
The meme’s-eye view says that memes are selected to the extent that they have effects on the people who encounter them that keep the memes alive in the culture: tunes that get stuck in our heads, for instance, or ideas that motivate us to talk about them, spread them, or impose them on other people.
Science is not the only form of knowledge. There are valid non-scientific ways of approaching reality.
An even moderately careful reading of Lolita should make it quite clear that it’s anything but a “celebration” of child rape.