Some things to discuss about the documentary The Social Dilemma.
- Tristan Harris raises the issue of Google Addiction within the Google organization- and it went nowhere. Why?
"If you are not paying for the product, you ARE the product."
"The gradual and imperceptible change in yoru behavior is the product."
- How does this model compare with Chomsky's Propaganda Model for mass media?
- When you're talking to a real person IRL - the software wants you back so it nudges you?
Examples of A/B Testing from Netflix - from my presentation at PCA 2022
The algorithm sells our eyes to Netflix, Prime, HBO, HULU, Spotify, Pandora, etc. so we will re-subscribe.
My high-speed provider benefits from this arrangement – since my subscriptions are dependent on my access.
Is this a reason we should be concerned about internet throttling the feeds of less lucrative providers?
Teens getting Driver's licenses at later ages... Self-driving cars? Surrender of autonomy?
- "You build the machine and the machine changes itself." Erewhon - the Book of the Machines.
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