Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

I think the FB/CA thing is prob less about privacy than the specific fear that personal psych profiles create perfect advertising. Everyone could be made to act against their interests, not just gullible people! That this isn't already the case is a pleasant lie we tell ourselves

Seems likely that: (a) manipulating a given person into doing or believing a specific thing they weren't likely to do or believe anyway is actually still very hard, and (b) manipulating enough people by just casting a sufficiently large net works & has worked for a long time.

I think most people believe some version of (a) & (b), where (a) is true if the person isn't gullible & (b) is true as long as the target pop contains enough gullible people. But I don't think gullibility explains much. Advertisers target pops that want what they're selling.