Schizophrenia is the price we pay for minds poised near the edge of a cliff

This reminds me of the "Natural engagement pattern" sketch that Mark Zuckerberg made about facebook content back in 2018: https://www.facebook.com/notes/751449002072082/

Content gets more engagement as it gets closer to the "policy line" of getting banned, and in a competitive information environment (an engagement maximizing algorithm) you end up with a lot of content close to the border of what's allowed.

Facebook is hostile to archive sites, so I am quoting this link for discussion purposes:

https://pastebin.com/S4bWZpma