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When digital mirrors are subtly warped, giving "curated connections"; authentic interactions become a luxury or a "segmented offering". Premium tiers incoming for masses😅

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I can easily imagine a time when being “served” by a human will be the height of status… kinda like the old days

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Humans don't default to truth. We default to what we want to be true.

I'm surprised it needed a study to prove this as there are decades worth of this... It's the same psychological motivator behind scams.

I wrote about the underlying mechanism a few months ago here: Default to Truth?

https://www.polymathicbeing.com/p/default-to-truth

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Nov 3Liked by Andrew Maynard

Good thoughts, Andrew.

I suspect most people will continue to proceed by American assumptions: their poverty is their fault, they just need to work harder.

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Nov 3Liked by Andrew Maynard

Call me an optimist, but maybe this will be the alarm needed to force people out of the uber-imaginative digital lives they've become so fond of living in via social media platforms.

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Ha - there's always hope!

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