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FTA: ... "they tuned their compulsion loop" ...

We've done it folks. We've found business models far shadier than standard issue surveillance capitalism.

This whole attention economy thing is just so unbelievably gross. The only things lower on the moral totem pole these days are cryptocurrency scams and the really shady/exploitative side of the porn industry.

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It's phrased so... nonchalantly. Basically an out-and-out admission that they are trying to appeal to producers of addictive gambling garbage. Content rather than art. Skinner boxes rather than agency. And the market rewards them for it (not Unity specifically - I expect Riccitiello to run the company into the ground within a year or two - but rather the game companies actually making slot machine games that collectively form half the games industry by revenue).

“Compulsion loop” definitely needs to go in the hall of fame of dystopian phrases.

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