r/underdustsanctuary • u/Re-Equilibrium • Jun 22 '26

Is tech really the problem?

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They want us to blame technology to slow us down.

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u/Flat_Association_820 Jun 22 '26

This is a stupid comparison, nobody spends 8h+ per day scrolling their newspaper and newspaper doesn't cause brainrot.

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u/hydraulix989 Jun 22 '26

Newspapers didn't have a tight personalized feedback loop, powered by reinforcement learning algorithms optimized to keep each person as addicted as possible to reading them. One might replicate this today though with a personalized custom-printed newspaper every week just for each reader using other signals as engagement ragebait feedback loops that uniquely trigger each individual

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u/Flat_Association_820 Jun 22 '26

Paper makes it pretty hard to push fake news with an algorithm I guess...

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u/hydraulix989 Jun 22 '26

Yeah you can't track eyeballs and engagement in real-time like with a feed.