And I would say yes, we shouldn’t. At least with those news outlets that do that. They do that because we engage with it, what’s better way to make them change their ways?
By changing human behavioral patterns that have been developed through evolutionary biases?
Humans naturally gravitate towards and have a better recall memory for negative events and information because in the past that provided an advantage for survival. Modern media outlets are well aware of this and exploit this across the board.
There is not a single source of news worth its salt that doesn’t exploit this except for maybe the Associated Press. So I guess only read that and stop engaging with all of social media and also media as a whole?
I’m not going to say that I like this YT channel or the format they have created for this style of debate. The rest of their content seems pretty surface level to me, and seems to make way too many false equivalencies between two propped up viewpoints.
That said, I don’t see any harm in sharing the specific video clip that the specific interaction referenced in the article. Asking to not share that information is akin to the early days of the internet where people ignorant of the nature of the medium simply shot their children’s computer screens with bullets, believing that was somehow a solution. It’s a naive argument that is so easily dismissed, it’s kind of laughable.
And to pose the question of how to solve the problem comes off as disingenuous, as it is obvious to anyone that has spent any amount of time online that the only solution is to somehow make human beings not biologically inclined to focus on negatively impactful stimuli. This monumental task would likely take a few thousands of generations and a lot more understanding about evolutionary biology to rid human beings of this tendency. Sorry.
We as a species got pretty good at not sucumbing to all the easiest natural behavior patterns, no reason not to learn to deal with this one. Evosoc isn’t a very rigorous field, and it’s not the first time they proposed something to be inevitable inate part of human nature, just to be proven wrong again and again. At this point the only inate part of human nature that tend to stick is an ability to change and adapt. So no need to be sorry
And I would say yes, we shouldn’t. At least with those news outlets that do that. They do that because we engage with it, what’s better way to make them change their ways?
By changing human behavioral patterns that have been developed through evolutionary biases?
Humans naturally gravitate towards and have a better recall memory for negative events and information because in the past that provided an advantage for survival. Modern media outlets are well aware of this and exploit this across the board.
There is not a single source of news worth its salt that doesn’t exploit this except for maybe the Associated Press. So I guess only read that and stop engaging with all of social media and also media as a whole?
I’m not going to say that I like this YT channel or the format they have created for this style of debate. The rest of their content seems pretty surface level to me, and seems to make way too many false equivalencies between two propped up viewpoints.
That said, I don’t see any harm in sharing the specific video clip that the specific interaction referenced in the article. Asking to not share that information is akin to the early days of the internet where people ignorant of the nature of the medium simply shot their children’s computer screens with bullets, believing that was somehow a solution. It’s a naive argument that is so easily dismissed, it’s kind of laughable.
And to pose the question of how to solve the problem comes off as disingenuous, as it is obvious to anyone that has spent any amount of time online that the only solution is to somehow make human beings not biologically inclined to focus on negatively impactful stimuli. This monumental task would likely take a few thousands of generations and a lot more understanding about evolutionary biology to rid human beings of this tendency. Sorry.
We as a species got pretty good at not sucumbing to all the easiest natural behavior patterns, no reason not to learn to deal with this one. Evosoc isn’t a very rigorous field, and it’s not the first time they proposed something to be inevitable inate part of human nature, just to be proven wrong again and again. At this point the only inate part of human nature that tend to stick is an ability to change and adapt. So no need to be sorry