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This is like telling people to drive better to prevent crashes. It's considerably more effective to invent/mandate seatbelts, airbags, crumple zones and hopefu
by wredcoll 15d ago
This is like telling people to drive better to prevent crashes.
It's considerably more effective to invent/mandate seatbelts, airbags, crumple zones and hopefully in the future some kind of automated magical computer system that takes driving completely out of the hands of meatbags.
- dgellow 15d agoYou’re using an analogy that removes the nuance from the topic in question
- wredcoll 15d agoHow so? People are people, there are severe limits to how much you can affect a population's "natural" behaviour via any kind of training or "public service announcement". (I mean, you can train every human to read, but you can't train them to practice 100% concentration/awareness every second they're behind the wheel of a car)
- throwway120385 15d agoGP pretty un-nuancedly said that parents just need to do their jobs better.
- zer00eyz 15d agoWe're talking about raising kids. At the end of the day, you're now telling someone else how to raise their kids. Because you know better? Because it has been determined that some kids are harmed by tech? Let's just put flock cameras every where and send kids outside again. They will be safe under the constant observation of the state? Right? Parents, Tech, Society (kids just cant really go outside unattended any more) have equal responsibility in all this. The compromise solution is NOT more tech, it's better warning labels on the device. It's telling the adults that they have a problem too...