Because of these modifications, humans could spend almost all day on YT. It is worth noting that, even in this semi-catastrophic case
Calling this a semi-catastrophic case illustrates what seems to me to be a common oversight: not thinking about non-technical feedback mechanisms. In particular, I expect that in this case, YouTube would become illegal, and then everything would be fine.
I know there’s a lot more complexity to the issue, and I don’t want people to have to hedge all their statements, but I think it’s worth pointing out that we shouldn’t start to think of catastrophes as “easy” to create in general.
Maybe I should have used different words: I didn’t want to convey the message that catastrophes are easy to obtain. The purpose of the fictional scenario was to make the reader reflect on the usage of the word “tool”.
Anyway, I’ll try to consider non-technical feedback mechanisms more often in the future. Thanks!
Calling this a semi-catastrophic case illustrates what seems to me to be a common oversight: not thinking about non-technical feedback mechanisms. In particular, I expect that in this case, YouTube would become illegal, and then everything would be fine.
I know there’s a lot more complexity to the issue, and I don’t want people to have to hedge all their statements, but I think it’s worth pointing out that we shouldn’t start to think of catastrophes as “easy” to create in general.
Maybe I should have used different words: I didn’t want to convey the message that catastrophes are easy to obtain. The purpose of the fictional scenario was to make the reader reflect on the usage of the word “tool”. Anyway, I’ll try to consider non-technical feedback mechanisms more often in the future. Thanks!