[mikeg8]

I don’t focus on the “net” benefits as mush as I used to, in large part to FB. For the first several years, the “net” benefit of a connected digital world where you can communicate and connect with friends anywhere sounded so fantastic. But it’s become almost consensus that the very real downsides, and this societal consequences, may not have been such a great deal after all.

The reason outliers feed our emotional response is a survival/skin in the game mechanism. Parroting Taleb, all it takes in ruin once and the game stops. It’s not unreasonable to be hyper focused on reducing long tail risks with potentially catastrophic and unknown results. Caution and fear is warranted here.