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Personally I find everything you listed here safer than letting a kid have unfiltered unlimited access to TikTok. You know a gun or a bomb is dangerous, so you

by api 3mo ago

Personally I find everything you listed here safer than letting a kid have unfiltered unlimited access to TikTok. You know a gun or a bomb is dangerous, so you'll probably be careful with it. The gun and the bomb are not engineered on purpose to hook you by exploiting your dopamine pathways and get you to shoot yourself or blow yourself up. EDIT: I'm being a little hyperbolic here, but I'm also talking about aggregate harm and intent to harm. I'm really being hyperbolic to bash what I consider to be the key villain in this story: addiction engineering, a.k.a. "maximizing engagement." This is the root of all evil.

zimpenfish 3mo ago
> You know a gun or a bomb is dangerous, so you'll probably be careful with it. The statistics on people killed/injured by their kids accidentally discharging firearms in the US disagree[0] [0] eg. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/unintentional-shootings-children-everytown-gun-safety-rcna143411 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/unintentional-shootings... "At least 157 people were killed and 270 were injured last year in unintentional shootings by children" (2024)
stephen_g 3mo ago
I’m not a TikTok fan by any means but that really does feels to me like bordering on delusion…
- microgpt 3mo ago
  Why?
  - tbugrara 3mo ago
    Because willingly throwing away your safety from the government and the oligarchs for a tale as old as time, "think of the kids", is irrational to say the least.
  - stephen_g 3mo ago
    Suggesting a video app is more dangerous than 13 year olds playing unsupervised with actual explosives and real guns...
pessimizer 3mo ago
> Personally I find everything you listed here safer than letting a kid have unfiltered unlimited access to TikTok. This sounds like you have a media addiction. This is the kind of extreme hyperbole that we spent a year or two saturated with when a bunch of states and a bunch of billionaires decided that American people were saying too much on Tiktok about Israel, and something something China evil.
- microgpt 3mo ago
  A lot of people including a lot of kids do have a media addiction. Should we do something about it? Remember that today's kids will be your caretakers when you're 80.

by api 3mo ago

zimpenfish 3mo ago

> You know a gun or a bomb is dangerous, so you'll probably be careful with it. The statistics on people killed/injured by their kids accidentally discharging firearms in the US disagree[0] [0] eg. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/unintentional-shootings-children-everytown-gun-safety-rcna143411 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/unintentional-shootings... "At least 157 people were killed and 270 were injured last year in unintentional shootings by children" (2024)

stephen_g 3mo ago

I’m not a TikTok fan by any means but that really does feels to me like bordering on delusion…

microgpt 3mo ago
Why?
- tbugrara 3mo ago
  Because willingly throwing away your safety from the government and the oligarchs for a tale as old as time, "think of the kids", is irrational to say the least.
- stephen_g 3mo ago
  Suggesting a video app is more dangerous than 13 year olds playing unsupervised with actual explosives and real guns...

pessimizer 3mo ago

> Personally I find everything you listed here safer than letting a kid have unfiltered unlimited access to TikTok. This sounds like you have a media addiction. This is the kind of extreme hyperbole that we spent a year or two saturated with when a bunch of states and a bunch of billionaires decided that American people were saying too much on Tiktok about Israel, and something something China evil.

microgpt 3mo ago
A lot of people including a lot of kids do have a media addiction. Should we do something about it? Remember that today's kids will be your caretakers when you're 80.