Interesting how "social engineering" has had 3 meanigns historically ~1850s - 1930s: social darwinism, authoritarian high modernism, eugenics ~1930s - 1990s: socioeconomic policy (keynesian, welfare, friedmanite...) ~1990s - : psychology hacking in computer interactions
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I've always wondered how much self-aware edginess was in the ~'90s usage.
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I don't actually know when the term came to mean things like phishing... I'm assuming it happened in the 90s?
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Except socieconomic policy is on average dysgenic.
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