I'm pretty sure that's a myth, but the analogy is still useful to get the concept across. It simultaneously amuses me and disappoints me that so many humans can be aware of this effect and still not recognise it happening to them, whilst the frogs aren't actually that stupid and jump out of the water.

*after you lobotomised the frog first.

Right, it’s of no consequence to people who just browse Facebook and do online banking and candy crush and watch TikTok reels. They’re already perfectly happy giving up everything about themselves.

And this is the issue. People are lazy and dumb. No desire to learn.

'Bad' is just an immediate feeling of aversion to most 'people'.

It does immediately affect them though

I am 10000% in the same boat. I can't even talk to them about tech because like you, I'll go insane trying to make them understand these issues and they just laugh it off, or I'm a crazy tinfoil hat person. Even though its documented 100% proven what big tech does.

A lot of them have given up as well. I mean, say you have a kid, then you forgo thinking about anything else in the world except that, who cares if zucc and thiel are destroying the world and surveiling you constantly to bring in a new era of authoritarianism that will result in mass suffering? Your kid needs food. Parents by and large do not care what is actually going on, theyre too busy (from what ive seen.) And I can't really blame them.

So I prefer to have intelligent conversation online, and when around IRL folks I just act as dumb as them.

Referencing the recent comic "if everyone in the world thought like me it'd be a better place" except I'm actually right 😩

We all start out that way. Not everyone is fortunate enough to grow in an environment that grants them access to education and insights into how tech works.

If you start thinking of others as lesser just because they’re less/uneducated about something then know that someone could be thinking the same of you.