You know they did that with video games too.. Should we do that here?

https://apnews.com/article/gaming-business-children-00db669d...

Isn't this comment quite reductive?

There are many reasons why there are two separate apps and not necessarily related to how addictive the algorithm is. The "source" you linked gives one such reason:

> Like other social media services in China, Douyin follows the censorship rules of the Chinese Communist Party. It conscientiously removes video pertaining to topics deemed sensitive or inflammatory by the party, although it has proved a little harder than text-based social media to control.

Also have you used Douyin? It's really feels like basically the same thing.

Personally I inject probes into my brain to measure the exact dopamine response every time I need to make a new purchase

...idk I think people just like premium phones, it's not that deep

> Secondly, I became convinced Trump had to be using some type of an advanced intuitive capacity, as, based on the information that would have been available to Trump at the time the decisions were made, I could not see any other way to explain how he’d made some of the choices he made. [0]

Why are you reading an unironic Donald Trump mega glazer?

[0]: https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/catalyst-events-and-the-t...

I think humans have a natural instinct to share what they find cool / interesting.

Before this was mostly done through in person communicate, now this is primarily done through smart phones.

I'd bet that most of such recordings are not even shared or perhaps even looked at by the author (personally, I'm guilty of this). It's just some sort of compulsion to record it.

You realize that it will only be replaced with something MORE addicting? People won't exactly start reading newspapers when Tik Tok dies..

We could all just burn out. Kind of like peak world of warcraft. We didn't get even more addictive mmos.

I'm sure the rise of smartphones had as much to do with that as anything. At its peak, WoW had 12M players; Pokemon Go had 4x that many daily actives at its peak.

Define learn.

Define people.

Define "define".

Define "

Equity data usually represents a big part of compensation and is basically impossible to value objectively as there are too many factors at play.

> YouTube is practically holding an incredible amount of knowledge and information hostage to feed Google’s insatiable desire for profits.

Free storage of data uploaded by willing users = hosting the data hostage?

Yes, because YouTube is changing their stance between when a large part of the data was uploaded and now. If they chose to compete fairly from the beginning instead of using their search ad revenue to kill off all the competitors we might have had something resembling a remotely free market instead of the unthinking, unfeeling monolith we have right now.

> Yes, because YouTube is changing their stance between when a large part of the data was uploaded and now.

This is untrue. As there was significantly less users on Youtube early on, it's highly likely that most of their total content consists of recently uploaded videos. This becomes more and more true as time goes on.

Huh?! You can sell your car, or take a loan against it. You can convert US dollars into your local currency.

Your individual data is worthless. Data is only worth something in aggregate.

Is it not like saying that any individual worth nothing because their social value is zero outside a collective?

I can give away some data to use a service. Companies generate money using this data. It is not useless.