Yeah, probably. The “attention economy” is something that they optimize for. But the focus on “hacking weaknesses” through the decades smells like Christian Sin holdovers. Like there's some concrete buggaboo spot in your brain where the Devil sits. You can see this happening again and again:
- Junk food
- The junk science about the Pleasure Button rat experiment
- Spiritualists obsessing over the dastardly Ego
- People blaming every impulse control problem on Dopamine
Which would be fine if these reactions in fact did anything to solve these problems (or alleged problems). But they don't. Because the answer is always to resist the Devil harder and to trust in your own fortitude.
- Junk food
- The junk science about the Pleasure Button rat experiment
- Spiritualists obsessing over the dastardly Ego
- People blaming every impulse control problem on Dopamine
Which would be fine if these reactions in fact did anything to solve these problems (or alleged problems). But they don't. Because the answer is always to resist the Devil harder and to trust in your own fortitude.