The insidious thing about algorithmically served content is that even if you don’t pay attention to it, it will slowly seep in to your mind, altering you slowly and steadily.
You see it/hear it for a microsecond and divert your attention dutifully, but your mind captured it, and processes it continuously. Because that’s what minds do.
So here you are, just scrolling through things. Minding your own business. And you didn’t even register it consciously.
And now you’re forever infected with a thought, concept you would have never arrived at on your own. A vision you would never have seen. A motive that never would’ve occurred.
And no matter what it was, you’re stuck with it forever because some asshole forced it into your head for a couple pennies.
I don’t think that’s true. Like, yes, priming is a real thing, the mere exposure effect is real, and the advertisement industry exists for a reason, but something you don’t pay attention to is unlikely to stick with you; the danger in algorithms is much more how they influence your emotions and your consumption patterns than how they inject your brain with unwanted thoughts
The insidious thing about algorithmically served content is that even if you don’t pay attention to it, it will slowly seep in to your mind, altering you slowly and steadily.
You see it/hear it for a microsecond and divert your attention dutifully, but your mind captured it, and processes it continuously. Because that’s what minds do.
So here you are, just scrolling through things. Minding your own business. And you didn’t even register it consciously.
And now you’re forever infected with a thought, concept you would have never arrived at on your own. A vision you would never have seen. A motive that never would’ve occurred.
And no matter what it was, you’re stuck with it forever because some asshole forced it into your head for a couple pennies.
It’s pure evil.
I don’t think that’s true. Like, yes, priming is a real thing, the mere exposure effect is real, and the advertisement industry exists for a reason, but something you don’t pay attention to is unlikely to stick with you; the danger in algorithms is much more how they influence your emotions and your consumption patterns than how they inject your brain with unwanted thoughts