Precautionary action against attention extraction is warranted before causal proof arrives
Evidence
Psychological distress and political discord are on the rise. By the time that researchers can prove a connection to human fracking, it will be too late. We can trust our senses, trust our judgment—and act now. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 103
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims
- QUESTION: This is the manifesto’s core epistemic bet - that proof will lag harm. Worth testing whether the strong-form precautionary principle is defensible or just rhetorical.
Related
- Attention extraction is a historical contingent result of human choice (similarity 0.83)
- The dispute over attention is ultimately an argument about what constitutes our humanity (similarity 0.80)
- Laboratory attention research served military and advertising ends. (similarity 0.79)
- Human fracking reduces persons and relationships to quantifiable commodities. (similarity 0.78)
- Contradiction detection is the method for predicting when attention extraction becomes unsustainable (similarity 0.78)
- Politics itself is being reshaped by attentional extraction industries (similarity 0.78)