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Have you read Homo Deus by Yuval Harari? Mentioning him can sound a bit pseudo as he's become so popular and is such a popularizer of others' ideas, but I believe the main tenet of Homo Deus is his own and comes very much from thinking about what you're calling "massive open online psychology." His notion is that trusting our technology more than trusting our own feelings will be the death of humanism, because in his view humanism is at heart about trusting one's own individual feelings. The entire liberal can be seen as one aspect or outgrowth of humanism.


I would say Martin Heidegger touched on that (trusting technology over intuition) before Harari in Being and Time (1927). Harari may have brought concepts into the mainstream but these concepts were being discussed in philosophy for over 100 years.


I would say that Harari is probably a good deal more approachable than Heidegger. :)




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