A lot of the next decade of consumer tech is about things that live on machine learning but raise significant privacy questions.
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I think often about this essay from 2012: https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html …
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The basic point is that almost every human activity is going from unmediated (20th century) to mediated (end of 21st).
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And the mediation layer is, by its nature, a warzone, a place for conflict between not just one government, but many governments, and not
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just one corporation, but multiple corporations, not-for-profits, advocates, etc.
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Excuse me: not just "the mediation layer", but every individual element of that layer is a natural place for (largely invisible) conflict.
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The machine learning + privacy (+ fairness etc) issues seem like another instance of this battle.
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