The upshot of this is that web / phone addiction is worse, or at least a bigger psi-risk, than we naively recognize.
Phones are uniquely embedded in the life-world and uniquely dynamic in a way that mass media never were.
Minds think in signs. There's no Adamic psyche who has a complete life of mind that's subsequently contaminated with memes or whatever. Thinking is a sign-process. Always has been.
And likewise, we can't read media technologies as if they're just more tools. The printing press is unlike the spinning wheel. The spinning wheel weaves wool. The printing press weaves dialectics.
The Ortega hypothesis posits that science progresses through the accumulation of narrow, modest, specialized findings.
It seems a fairly unobjectionable elaboration to argue that publication bias is a major cause of friction preventing the accumulation of modest and mundane findings behind leading research programs.
I propose that publication bias is a major drag force preventing the emergence of experimental consensus.
THE VVEST VSED TO STAND FOR FINE ART
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9Fr1MlnpSk
Nice argument. However, I have already depicted myself as the interplanetary revolutionary and you as a Nazi cannibal:
https://youtu.be/BFvEnT4GbdM?si=ef1OL9TvimttkAF4
Even if every human turned off every machine and disappeared overnight tonight, we have already caused a geologically significant extinction for the only known life-source in the universe
Humanist interested in the consequences of the machine on intellectual history.