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by andai
1494 days ago
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You know that experiment with the grapes and the chimpanzees? They gave chimpanzees 2 grapes a day for a long time, then gave them 3 grapes (for a week). Then they went back to 2 grapes and the chimps started throwing feces at the researchers. When I was growing up, (nearly all?) online news was free and wasn't paywalled. It's only in the last decade or so that they started paywalling it, even for content from the "before time". What was once free now costs money, and it feels like I'm getting ripped off, even though I might rationally appreciate that ad profits have gone down, or whatever the reason is. |
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Yes, humans are creatures of habit, and our mechanism of deciding whether a change is good or bad fundamentally depends on whether the change is better or worse than the current state of affairs.
In other news, water is wet.