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  • Addiction, distraction, disinformation, polarisation and radicalisation; all these "hurricanes", Mr Raskin and Mr Harris argue, have one common cause. -They come from the fact that we now spend large portions of our lives inside artificial social systems, - which are run by private companies for profit.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jan/02/attention-span-focus-screens-apps-smartphones-social-media

Thread from neuroscientist refutation of portions of this article:

https://twitter.com/garwboy/status/1477714767854850049

Tristan Harris’ first big idea for the tech industry, the Time Well Spent movement, was an outsized success.

A strong and cogent argument for why we should not be listening to the overly loud cries from Tristan Harris and the Center for Human Technology. The boundary of criticism they're setting is not extreme enough to make the situation significantly better.

It's also a strong argument for who to allow at the table or not when making decisions and evaluating criticism.