I am so thankful you are educating the public about this! It is difficult to put the toothpaste back in the tube after you’ve taken it out, but I believe there are solutions on the horizon. The Social Dilemma helped me to remove myself from social media entirely (except KZread). I lost control of my own ideas and thoughts and found myself stuck for hours in a mental spiral 🌀 of outrage. Now removed, it is difficult to witness the social decay and outrage culture these technologies have brought. Thank you for your dedication and education on this issue!

@CenterforHumaneTechnology

2 жыл бұрын

It is our pleasure! We are grateful to hear about how our work has supported positive changes in your life!

@alaalfa8839

2 жыл бұрын

The simplest ideas make our brain less confused. For example the shorter quote the deeper meaning. As Dr. Joe says "Thought sends the signal out, feeling draws an event back to you." Therefore meditation is such a good tool, you notice feelings. And he says people think it is chemical. It is not chemical but electro-magnetic.

This is all correct. I wrote a 430 page book on this subject

@CenterforHumaneTechnology

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, that's great! What was it called? Can you drop a link to it?

@alaalfa8839

2 жыл бұрын

It seems like Twitter is programming or conditioning people for the feeling of missing out, maybe even more than Facebook, because if you would decide to check the Twitter´s interesting topics once a week, the info would be gone, or you have to scroll down and nobody replies to week-old news etc. It would be interesting to measure how much freedom of choice Twitter, Facebook, Tik Tok, and youtube give you. For example, it seems the short videos of Tik Tok recommended by youtube, seem like you have no choice of content, you just scroll what is available or maybe you have a choice only by using keywords. On Twitter, you may mute some content you don't like. On youtube, you may block some stuff too by some apps, but it seems youtube gives some freedom of choice.

A very rich 6 minutes Maria, brilliant.

@mluisalambert

2 жыл бұрын

Hi! Great to hear from you!!

Brilliant, a two hour lecture in six minutes. This is awesome

@CenterforHumaneTechnology

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much -- what would you say was the most valuable part for you?

@harveytheparaglidingchaser7039

2 жыл бұрын

@@CenterforHumaneTechnology my top 2 learning points salience network, didn't know about that and forcing us to multitask which is obvious when you think about it but good to be aware of. Makes me think of drivers texting or looking at their phones with sometimes disastrous consequences. The delivery was very good too

Brilliant Maria! and GRATITUDE for your excellent work in disentangling for us this complex topic !

Great video. Makes me think of how I want to raise my kids to help them avoid these pitfalls. Scary stuff!

@CenterforHumaneTechnology

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely can be scary, but it will be parents like you that help our future generations find solutions to these problems.

I recently read Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Right Now by Jaron Lanier and found very good insight and information about what you’ve talked about here! I recommend it!

@CenterforHumaneTechnology

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words and recommendation

@alaalfa8839

2 жыл бұрын

It's great I was listening to it before and now as you reminded it.

We should make an onboarding class for kids and teens who (unfortunately) are getting on social for the first time priming them and giving them proper context for the mechanics of the algorithm, likes, and how to not be affected by all those pressures.

@CenterforHumaneTechnology

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, more digital literacy -- coupled with dramatically reimagining our digital infrastructure -- would be supportive.

I think being aware of these definitely helps to some extent , thanks!

@CenterforHumaneTechnology

2 жыл бұрын

Great to hear -- that is our belief, too.

We know and we have powerful ways to remedy to all this! The solution is to increase self-awareness / develop metacognition (powerful and natural Human abilities), vibrational awareness, so we know how things affect us on energy level. Then, only then we will have the power to control what controls us now.

This is highly valuable info, recommending this video to our friends right now🙂

@CenterforHumaneTechnology

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing!

@CenterforHumaneTechnology

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! FYI this information was based on our free course, Foundations of Humane Technology, -- humanetech.com/course -- so for anyone wanting to learn more about these topics, head there!

Thank you

Cal Newport said a good idea that If it is a tool, so you should use it as a tool, for your work. Wonder whether it's possible for some people to use it just as a tool and feel about it as a tool emotionally if their friends don´t use it as a tool, but as a stimulus, your friends would have to start to use it more as a tool and not as a distraction.

Thank you for the informative video. I believe what the CHT is doing is very important, and I support your efforts. In that light, I’d like to offer a small constructive criticism: please slow down your speaking and add pauses between your points. I had to pause and rewind the video numerous times because I couldn’t assimilate and digest one point before you were halfway into the next point. I understand that you’re trying to reach an audience that may have an attention deficit, but your points will have so much more impact if we can think about them as we’re listening to them. Thanks again for all you’re doing!

Your video is very informative. Keep them coming. I want to learn more and plan to share this video with friends and family.

@CenterforHumaneTechnology

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Will do!

Another problem is that people want to lose themselves in the virtual noisy world. they don't want to listen to neverending conversations on the bus or in restaurants.... about politics and negativity, mostly if your intention is to start the new day positively and disconnect from others...People think that they change politics by talking about it every day. Einstein said he never found new discoveries through rational thinking, but only when he stopped to think rationally...forcefully, or whatever, the idea came to him. On the Facebook group about meditation, some student said that he needs to do his homework outside the house, and go to a classmate's house, because it's too distracting for him to do homework at home, and asked for advice...People don't realize that students need their own space on the internet but also outside of the internet.

I remember when Rogan mentioned "We are in the infancy of the information age". I agree with this. I'd like to work in the field of educating people about how technology is changing our behavior and offsetting natural social and mental balance. I see it in myself in my 40's and would like to educate the youth how technological habits affect their mental health, behaviors and perspectives. I'm just not sure how to start working in this field.

@CenterforHumaneTechnology

2 жыл бұрын

Hey Keith! This makes a lot of sense. For a helpful resource, check out our video about How To Build a Career in Humane Technology: kzread.info/dash/bejne/aqKcz8agqM2sZcY.html

I am just listening repetitively to the video about the casino. Casino´s false wins is an interesting topic. So we should consider which content on social media is a false win, something that you don't need.... and which is an educational or also noneducational but entertaining valuable content.

thanks for guiding and informing us ✨

@CenterforHumaneTechnology

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for being engaged with these issues

Thanks, CHT! 👍

Didn’t know that the medial PFC handled self-referential encoding which adds more detail to how I grok limbic hijacks. I also like the language of ‘seeking without fulfillment’ or satisfaction too because clarifies the challenges of democratic/cognitive foundation degradation with reduced working memory capacities for seeking and taking opposing perspectives towards achieving synergistic satisfiers and dialectical synthesis. Thanks for these videos! Learned/connected a lot from your extractive tech video as well. Accessibly concise and useful for informing folks about Game B / adjacent communities.

@CenterforHumaneTechnology

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Chris --

I don't use social media i am older and so have grown through the stages of certainty. This type of technology amplifies the eggshells for the unsure...

Thank you for the video, very informative, and easy to digest

@CenterforHumaneTechnology

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words! What would you say was the most valuable part for you?

@seetlive

2 жыл бұрын

@@CenterforHumaneTechnology All the given information is valuable. If I am to pick the most damaging one, in my opinion, in regard to social media, I would say the part where we as humans tend to compare ourselves to others. Unfortunately, social media has taken that to another level at scale, and not for the good.

Maybe if we may remind ourselves with humor ..."Little bit of crazy town today" ....every day actually. Then we would seek it less because we consciously realize it at the moment. If we will tell ourselves with the best interest and effort that.. "It's healthy" or "mostly healthy, because of best intentions" we would not see and realize the blind spots of its reality...positive thoughts make you seek it more. But I don't mean like yelling "wolf" and running away...but just remind the subconscious mind, that I want to use it less.

What could we do? I draw upon the epiphany of human technology and the greatest educational medium; a toddler's movies. As ideal and naïve at first glance, I think each and every small agent of change, whether that is CHT's video, parents encouraging curiosity and critical thinking in their children, or increasing access to introductory psychology courses that brushes on cognitive biases, can plant seeds of hope and tend the soil for guarding ourselves against a famine or existential natural disaster. Maybe then, we could be that one plant that survived Wall-E's dystopian world, the female passenger who was initially hopelessly glued to her motherboard and personalized monitor, but at moment's glitch glanced out the window to truly see the beautiful but hallow outer space with empty promises, or be the lousy captain who guttered up his courage to steer ship to mother earth after tapping into his inert potential sitting under decades of complacency and empty authority

Currently multi-tasking 😩

@CenterforHumaneTechnology

2 жыл бұрын

It happens to us all!

Hi there , after watching your movie " Social Dilema " i actually delete my Instagram and Fb acc .. i was thinking , oh my life is goona be wooow after this ... and whats happend next - all that time that i was on this 2 platforms go to next app that cant be deleted from my phone " KZread " .. 3 hours a day avarage time .. 3 hours a day x 30 days x 12 months = 45 days in just one year :( ...

This channel remains far to small for the value found in its content. You are reaching but a small portion of the whole. A great pity.

Machine learning learns about human and beat human. Thus, to turn the table around, human needs to learn how machine learns, so we can beat the machine learning. Sadly your video is not in my youtube feed algorithm. The social media changes users from highly aware state of what content they are expose to, and lower down their awareness to a state where they are automated to seek for feeds due to triggered salience network, break their focus, improving feed contents through engagement, dopamine cycle, and constantly promote users seeking for comparison, social identities, fear of missing out. By taking social media leave, shutting down the account, it makes everything in clarity. That, the social media life is fake.

@alaalfa8839

2 жыл бұрын

I like your ideas. To the first thought, you said maybe the option is to practice metacognition, observing your own behavior and thoughts...and realize I don't need this topic at this moment, I would rather listen to some inspirational music, or maybe listen to a nice podcast but not click a mouse hundred times and multitasking. I mean when we used to listen to the radio we felt less manipulated, therefore it seems to me listening is ok, it somehow affects positively the brainwaves, or a nice voice has also good effect on brain network and mood, whether we pay attention consciously your not. But I wonder the clicking and multitasking seem to be problems, because it's procrastination, and they are monitoring every click we do. I think that we try to convince our mind that clicking on various channels and topics helps our creative mind, but sometimes it makes us bored because some topics become repetitive or trivial or are interesting only for a short moment.

@alaalfa8839

2 жыл бұрын

Dr. Bruce Lipton explains that the subconscious mind is our habit mind, it works like a computer program and it works on 95 percent of the day. Some thoughts are so automatic that you don't observe them. The conscious mind is creative and full of wishes and desires. The conscious mind works on 5 percent of the day. So you use only 5 percent of your wishes and desires, to change your habits. He says that there are 3 kinds of techniques to change habits.

@dlareg7201

2 жыл бұрын

I like your thoughtful comments. Yes another point of why people are so difficult to leave the social media system is that they are using 5% of their conscious fighting the 95% of the subconscious. And in addition as we aged our neurons tends to stay fix to it, thus making people more stubborn to leave those addiction. Such ways are dragging human life quality down. Unless the law department makes useful changes to the social media, or else, this can cause a whole generation stucking into it, more severe than the television era.

You should use a better microphone next time.

Propaganda done right.

Too much vocal fry for me. Could you put sub titkes on it pls and not speak

@CenterforHumaneTechnology

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for letting us know -- we'll look into that. We cannot put subtitles on retrospectively, but you can add closed captions in the meantime. We hope that helps!

What is the opposite of the fear of missing out?.... It should be some positive balanced or neutral feeling because it's the opposite. But how it is called? so I may program it subconsciously in a state of alpha, theta. For example, I don't feel the feeling of missing out on Instagram, because I don't go there often. I like some channels on youtube or Twitter, but it's not good constantly check what's new? Probably spending some time on Twitter is not harmful in the short moment or present moment, or we don't feel its effect in the present moment.... but it's harmful for a long period of time because it is conditioning and Sam Vaknin says conditioning is worse than addiction, or it's harder to deal with it. He says people who are in love with a husband or wife, use Facebook or Twitter less. They don't feel the need to use it as often because love is a natural ultimate addiction. He says the greatest concurrence for Facebook is being in love with your own wife or husband because they need your eyeballs, not you looking at your wife or husband. Maybe it's the same as a love for sports, and hobbies. He said in 2007 studies said that the situation is serious...that they stopped doing the studies because Google is one of the biggest corporations.