TikTok jest bombą czasową - najlepsze fragmenty

http://gurwinder.substack.com/p/tiktok-may-be-a-chinese-bio-weapon

#ciekawostki #tiktok

TikTok's recommendation algorithm is the core product.

Tiktok uses a proprietary algorithm, known simply as the Fuck You algorithm, that uses machine learning to build a personality profile of you by training itself on your watch habits.

Since a TikTok video is generally much shorter than, say, a YouTube video, the algorithm acquires training data from you at a much faster rate, allowing it to quickly zero in on you.

And once it’s figured you out, it can then show you what it needs to in order to addict you.

When it receives the signal that it’s got your attention, it doubles down on whatever it did to get it. This allows it to feed your obsessions, showing you hypnotic content again and again, reinforcing its imprint on your brain.

This content can include promotion of self-harm and eating disorders, and uncritical encouragement of sex-reassignment surgery. There’s evidence that

watching such content can cause mass psychogenic illness: researchers recently identified a new phenomenon where otherwise healthy young girls who watched clips of Tourette’s sufferers developed Tourette’s-like tics.

people engage in a specific act of idiocy in the hope it’ll make them TikTok-famous. Acts include licking toilets, snorting suntan lotion, eating chicken cooked in NyQuil, and stealing cars, vandalizing property, choking themselves on purpose.

a strong association between smartphone addiction, shrinkage of the brain’s gray matter, and “digital dementia,” an umbrella term for the onset of

anxiety and depression and the deterioration of memory, attention span, self-esteem, and impulse control (the last of which increases the addiction).

its potential use as a new kind of weapon it’s forbidden access of the app to Chinese kids.

Chinese version of TikTok, Douyin, is a “spinach” version where kids don’t see twerkers and toilet-lickers but science experiments and educational videos

Wang Huning, and, despite not being well known outside China, he has been China’s top ideological theorist for three decades, and he is now member number 4 of the seven-man Standing Committee—China’s most powerful body

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politburo_Standing_Committee_of_the_Chinese_Communist_Party#Current_members_(in_order)

In August 1988, Wang accepted an invitation to spend six months in the US, and traveled from state to state noting the way American society operates, examining its strengths and weaknesses

US is a paradox composed of contradictions: its two primary values—freedom and equality—are mutually exclusive. It has many different cultures, and therefore no overall culture. And its market-driven society has given it economic riches but spiritual poverty.

As such, the nation’s progress is directed mostly by blind market forces; it obeys not a single command but a cacophony of three hundred million demands that lead it everywhere and nowhere.

(myślę że tutaj Wong sie myli - społeczeństwo USA jest sterowane (dosłownie jak kukiełki) przez wysoce świadomą własnego interesu elitę a nie jakąś

"kakafonię 300 milionów głosów" (demokracji)

Przeciętny amerykanin nie musi być inteligentny i świadomy, ważne aby robił swoje i konsumował, a elita ogarnie resztę)

“core values”—a national consensus of beliefs and principles rooted in the traditions of the past and directed toward a clear goal in the future

In the wake of that statement, there have been crackdowns on “sissy-men” fashions, “digital drugs” like online gaming, and “toxic idol worship.”

Land and Wang were not just polar opposites in personality; they also operated at opposite ends of the political spectrum. While Wang would go on to be

the top ideological theorist of the Chinese Communist Party, Land would become the top theorist (with Curtis Yarvin) of the influential network of far-right bloggers, NRx.

And yet, despite their opposite natures, Land and Wang would develop almost identical visions of liberal capitalism as an all-commodifying, all devouring force, driven by the insatiable hunger of blind market forces, and destined to finally eat Western civilization itself.

Western capitalism can be compared to a “paperclip maximizer,” a hypothetical AI programmed by a paperclip business to produce as many paperclips as possible

Land’s own life followed the same course he envisioned for the liberal West; following years of high productivity, he fell into nihilism and the decadence of rampant drug use, which drove him to a nervous breakdown. Upon recovering in 2002, he embraced authoritarianism

Chinese democracy activists try to accelerate the CCP’s authoritarianism ad absurdum; one tactic is to swamp official tip-off lines with reports of minor or made-up infractions, with the intent of breaking the Party by forcing it to enforce all of its own petty rules.

the market has taken us toward ever shorter-form entertainment, from cinema in the early 1900s, to TV mid-century, to minutes-long YouTube videos, to seconds-long TikTok clips.

With TikTok the delay between desire and gratification is almost instant

And this is why TikTok could prove such a devastating geopolitical weapon. Slowly but steadily it could turn the West’s youth—its future—into perpetually distracted dopamine junkies ill-equipped to maintain the civilization built by their ancestors.

We seem to be halfway there already: not only has there been gray matter shrinkage in smartphone-addicted individuals, but, since 1970 the Western average IQ has been steadily falling.

So, the CCP has both the means and the motive to help the West defeat itself, and part of this could conceivably involve the use of TikTok toaccelerate liberal capitalism by closing the gap between desire and gratification.

Wang’s belief that meaning and purpose can be miraculously imposed on us all by a strongman leader is just a fantasy that has littered history withfailed experiments.

Sure, democracies are vulnerable because there’s no one controlling their advancement, but autocracies are vulnerable precisely for the oppositereason: they’re controlled by people, which is to say, by woefully myopic apes.

TikTok destroys so gradually that it seems harmless. But if the app is a time-bomb that’ll wreck a whole generation years from now.

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The assault on Western civilization arises not just from TikTok, but at every level: hormonal, pharmaceutical, sociological, economic. Worse, these assaults are not simply being launched from hostile foreign actors and passively enabled by our own feckless leadership class, but in many cases originate domestically.

Threat vectors such as TikTok, opioids, Tinder, endocrine disruptors, HFCS, and so on need to be identified, awareness propagated, and their use and abuse shamed and made low status.

Mój komentarz: nie powinno się usunąć tylko tiktoka, ale każdą aplikację która wykorzystuje ten mechanizm natychmiastowej gratyfikacji.

np. YouTube Shorts, instagram story,