> The popularity ratio of garbage books vs non-garbage is nowhere even close to the equivalent ratio on social media,
The ratio of absolute nonsense and garbage books to decent literature is probably 99:1, if not higher. It's got to be the same for TV shows, and movies.
> where instantaneous feedback loops of dopamine shots are pushing the balance in favor of the worst kind of content, I admit TV already did some of that but social media platforms are on a whole new level.
We've been having this argument for decades - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/children-80s-never-fe... this is a great example of it. People were worried about that playing video games will turn you violent, or that novels will make it difficult to differentiate between reality and fantasy.
> And there has been a drop in the average IQ of the world in recent decades, and is directly related to TV and the other things you mentioned, so it's clear that it does have consequences and some of it is indeed a negative influence, source: https://www.swnewsmedia.com/article_8317aad9-876e-5c1e-804a-...
Link didn't work for me (thanks GDPR), so archive link here: https://archive.ph/wnaFn - That' not a source, that's a column in a local newspaper with no citations and no research. The article (which is a two paragraph soapbox about people on the internet being stupid) doesn't mention TV, social media, or what the cause for his claim that IQ is dropping is.
> The ratio of absolute nonsense and garbage books to decent literature is probably 99:1, if not higher. It's got to be the same for TV shows, and movies.
The ratio of consumption the one that matters here, and in that context social media is the clear winner in the ratio of consumption of garbage content, just the other day I learned there are a few kids making millions of dollars from opening toys in gift packages, "unboxing" they call it, it's like crack cocaine for children watching, and there are thousands of other families/channels (with children) trying to do the same and reach the same audience; you try to compare things and say that all this has happened before but the similarities are next to none, specially when the entry barrier to become a content creator it's so low.
Videogames turning you violent is dumb because it involves turning a fantasy behavior into a real one, this has nothing to do with that because the problem TikTok and others pose is wasting time in proportions never seen before, a lot of factors play a role, including the ubiquity of smartphones, most people spend 100% of their time next to theirs, another one is the incentives to make you waste as much time as possible to show you as many ads as possible.
It's weird, the article has a lot more paragraphs when accessed from a different referrer, anyway, I found another source that quotes one of the studies that says that IQ is lowering, and it's clearly states that is due environmental factors, and yes, that includes media: https://www.google.com/amp/s/learningenglish.voanews.com/amp...
The ratio of absolute nonsense and garbage books to decent literature is probably 99:1, if not higher. It's got to be the same for TV shows, and movies.
> where instantaneous feedback loops of dopamine shots are pushing the balance in favor of the worst kind of content, I admit TV already did some of that but social media platforms are on a whole new level.
We've been having this argument for decades - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/children-80s-never-fe... this is a great example of it. People were worried about that playing video games will turn you violent, or that novels will make it difficult to differentiate between reality and fantasy.
> And there has been a drop in the average IQ of the world in recent decades, and is directly related to TV and the other things you mentioned, so it's clear that it does have consequences and some of it is indeed a negative influence, source: https://www.swnewsmedia.com/article_8317aad9-876e-5c1e-804a-...
Link didn't work for me (thanks GDPR), so archive link here: https://archive.ph/wnaFn - That' not a source, that's a column in a local newspaper with no citations and no research. The article (which is a two paragraph soapbox about people on the internet being stupid) doesn't mention TV, social media, or what the cause for his claim that IQ is dropping is.