[api]

Personally I find everything you listed here safer than letting a kid have unfiltered unlimited access to TikTok.

You know a gun or a bomb is dangerous, so you'll probably be careful with it. The gun and the bomb are not engineered on purpose to hook you by exploiting your dopamine pathways and get you to shoot yourself or blow yourself up.

EDIT: I'm being a little hyperbolic here, but I'm also talking about aggregate harm and intent to harm. I'm really being hyperbolic to bash what I consider to be the key villain in this story: addiction engineering, a.k.a. "maximizing engagement." This is the root of all evil.

[zimpenfish]

> You know a gun or a bomb is dangerous, so you'll probably be careful with it.

The statistics on people killed/injured by their kids accidentally discharging firearms in the US disagree[0]

[0] eg. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/unintentional-shootings... "At least 157 people were killed and 270 were injured last year in unintentional shootings by children" (2024)

[stephen_g]

I’m not a TikTok fan by any means but that really does feels to me like bordering on delusion…

[microgpt]

Why?

[pessimizer]

> Personally I find everything you listed here safer than letting a kid have unfiltered unlimited access to TikTok.

This sounds like you have a media addiction. This is the kind of extreme hyperbole that we spent a year or two saturated with when a bunch of states and a bunch of billionaires decided that American people were saying too much on Tiktok about Israel, and something something China evil.