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I'm so filled with dread by this future we're heading into. I'm 29 and I feel impossibly tired because whatever I do I'm heading the same way everyone else is and it doesn't look good.

Sure, lots of things will get better, but I don't think it can get better overall when we're giving this much knowledge of human nature to companies that'll certainly leverage it against our rational interests.

The more I read about neuroscience and modern psychology, the more I realize how much of our more basic (in the evolutionary sense) intuitions can be exploited by people that know how to, and this much information gives them that. It's been done before, yeah, but not to this extent and it worries me to no end.