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The Function of Benevolent Paternalism
There is a function for a certain type of benevolent paternalism in the sense of almost like nudge theory. I think if so many people were not making money from them, it would be easier for those people to acknowledge that they are predatory. The right approach pragmatically would be to build either templates and guidelines for, hey, look, if you're building an app and you don't want it to hurt your users because you're not a psychopath, here are things you can do to just don't do these default things as a software developer. It's amazing how simple this is. This is the danger of when we have such capable technologies, people who don't have to think about those