I think there are two things about the underlying phenomenon that are worth noting and one thing about the article that makes my eyes roll into the back of my head casehttps://twitter.com/politicalmath/status/1143887599162908672 …
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BigTech companies can use all sorts of tricks to push behavior in one direction or another in the short term but users very quickly adapt and drop a product if it's pissing them off A large part of my job is pointing this out to managers and devs and trying to stop it
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The other issue is asymmetric costs around user agreements My skip level at the Fed talked about this a fair amount during the 08 crash, his cute term for it was "obfuscopoly" A company only has to create an agreement once; each of millions of users must pare the fine print
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This is actually a problem. I can see regulation being useful in concept, but per ushe the problem is in execution and I'm pretty skeptical of the government managing to improve on the status quo
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have you seen the governments user agreement its billions of pages long you have to hire professionals at hundreds of dollars per hour to understand it if you violate it they put you in a cage steal your kids or shoot you and there's no opt out
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Excuse me I've regained my composure Anyway the eyeroll comes in with Big Media talking about this shit like they dont track and resell user information with negligible consent "We just noticed you're browsing in incognito mode" bitxh,,,,, Ok thank u all I love u
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Whatever happened to brainwashing? Whatever happened to brain probes? Whatever happened to the psychological techniques that would supposedly enable totalitarian governments to compel voluntary obedience?
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It looks like the phenomena that supposedly showed yesterday's social scientists that free will does not exist vanished with little trace. Why should we take similar stuff today seriously?
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If "subliminal messaging" actually existed, there would be no need for ad agencies to employ upwards of 189,000 people. A couple of guys with clear crayons could write sex on a blank page and sell the product ... Wilson Bryan Key notwithstanding.
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