It's worth reading Virginia Eubanks' Automating Inequality, which makes the case that we've built one of these here in the US too, for the poor, and it isn't working out well here either.https://www.amazon.com/Automating-Inequality-High-Tech-Profile-Police/dp/1250074312/ …
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Probably going to be a lot of grade inflation. I already think very hard before I rate any driver less than 5 stars
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We’re getting the story wrong. https://www.chinalawtranslate.com/seeing-chinese-social-credit-through-a-glass-darkly/?lang=en …
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Also an episode of The Orville.
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Does it really differ much from current western systems? credit ratings, criminal record, school score, driving demerit points etc?
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And for a second there I thought China was looking to mid-20th-century Canadian religious conservatives for inspiration
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Just when you thought "great TV makes horrible policy" was exclusively an American problem right now
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We already have it
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Isn’t this the same as a credit score in the US?
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No, it encompasses political speech, observed behavior, police records, employment details, and commercial purchases, not just borrowing and repayment events.
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Different culture. Americans fetishize privacy and individualism. Our population also has a lot more room to spread out.
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Worked ok for the Leni Lenape, I believe.
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I just asked my Chinese guest/foreign student if she heard of the social score. She doesn't have a clue what's going on.
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Depends on your definition of “turns out well”. I think it will help entrench the current regime.
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I think it will backfire spectacularly after a few years, and is already being abused by joe-job extortionists
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That black mirror episode seemed over the top but China said to that TV show "hold my beer".
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Thorstein Veblen's idea of conspicuous consumption, on super steroids.
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