Name: Should Social Media Algorithms Be Regulated
Uploaded: 2022-01-12T18:20:35.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Should Social Media Algorithms Be Regulated' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-01-12. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Should Social Media Algorithms Be Regulated' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-01-12. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience but for young people in particular is his point it's
having really bad effects I mean he looks at like he charts the the
introduction of social media and the rise of like self-harm hospitalizations
for self-harm especially among adolescent girls yeah it's like been
doubling every three years basically since Facebook was introduced well it's
really the introduction of the smartphone it's really 2007 it's the
coddling of the American mind if people haven't read it it's really good and
talking to Jonathan and getting the sort of it's almost like he's he's sending
out
a warning like the British are coming the British it really is like it the the
dangers are only going to be exacerbated by AR and whatever new technology
comes
along and haptic feedback suits and all this chaos that all the new stuff that's
going to be invented over the next 10 years 20 years is only going to be
more immersive yeah absolutely I mean he but he just thinks that that the
social
media companies have to be forced to at least not make no kids on well not like
it
I mean yeah at the very least it should be like cigarettes and booze where they
make a genuine attempt to keep people under the age of 16 or 18 it's
interesting
because there are some things that for those kids are good but this is what's
really fascinating the way China is handling it is so different than America
China's version of tik-tok celebrates academic achievements athletic
achievements it's all science projects all these different fascinating things
and
they lock it out at 10:00 p.m. at 10:00 p.m. no one's on it those kids are not
allowed to get on it because they're trying to encourage achievement but trying
to
encourage like like China has a program to try to make men more manly like this
open program where they're trying to make men more masculine they're doing all
these things with like this idea of engineering a society of more
accomplished more successful people whereas what are we doing on tik-tok kids
are fucking dancing and they're not actually in memes they're screaming about
veganism and how blue their hair is and it's wild yeah I wonder difference is
interesting because I don't think we should engineer the way our society
interacts with each other but if you look at the way China's doing it like they're
doing it clearly with this idea that they want to stimulate young minds and
they
want to promote this idea that doing things that you are you know like you're
going to become more accomplished you're going to become more athletic you know
like these are what they're trying to encourage I mean I'm a little bit
reticent about holding anything up that the Chinese Communist Party does is
being a
great idea and if we're worried about things like the New York Post article
about Joe Biden's son's laptop being suppressed by Twitter just wait a year
and all of the people who are being suppressed on conventional social media
outlets like just wait you get a load of what a bureaucracy would do if they
had
control over what the algorithms show you no denying that no no one would ever
argue that with a fucking clear conscience yeah so I mean what do you do like I
mean
the other thing that height says is maybe you try to force them to make the
algorithms like not constantly addictive I mean I think what people don't
necessarily always think about when you're using these platforms is that
they're not blank open spaces into which your friends and the people you're
following are commenting and then it's just kind of you know filtering down in
a
neutral way it's obviously being rejigged at the back end to maximize the
time that you're spending on the site all I want all the algorithm wants to do
is to
keep you there for one second longer so they can maximize the time you're
spending on the one on the platform John heights like could you change that
algorithm so it's like you know more fulfilling stuff instead of more
addictive stuff and I'm like I don't know how you would legislate that I don't
know how you would make them do that what China's doing it I think essentially
the
only way to do it is to have no algorithms just allow people to search what
they enjoy and find it on their own the suggested side of YouTube that's what
gets you yes and it seems like they've stopped playing auto playing new shows
oh really is that real Jimmy like when I watch YouTube it doesn't necessarily
always do that anymore like sometimes it just shows me a new a new video but
sometimes it doesn't sometimes the video just stops yes they maybe just change
the
default setting to off and maybe you have to turn back on or something could be
something like that well that's probably good but if there was no algorithm
whatsoever you know the argument would be that well there's probably a lot of
things that you would be introduced to that you would enjoy that you're gonna
miss if there's no algorithm at all yeah sure and that would be fine I mean
isn't that the way that I wander through life normally like there's all kinds
of
stuff that's out there that I guess because it's not being constantly shoved
into my
face like I don't necessarily need the most addictive food at all times also
just sometimes have a salad right but the business model for them like they're
concerned with the most engagement yeah the best way to get the most
engagement is find out what jobs Zeps likes yeah and then show it to him over
and over and over again yeah you know I mean as you say once I are like
whenever
you talk about like haptic feedback suits and stuff like that my mind just goes
to
like once porn gets mastered in that world there's gonna be a large percentage
of
the population that's just in the basement for long periods of time
Thank you.