[siliconc0w]

On one hand, this is insidious when targeting children.... On the other these kind of metrics are what pretty much every company tries to optimize.

We're going to get better and better at hacking the human brain - for good and evil and we're going to have to trade some free will and personal liberty to really keep the worst of it in check. The dark pattern bullshit is the easiest thing to regulate but I don't have a lot of hope for even that.

[intended]

Which is fine. As the article points out, we value markets because they find ways to allocate resources effectively. Insider trading is illegal because it breaks the market.

Firms can optimize as they like, but if the net result is that the market ceases to function, then those behaviors get penalized.