Thursday, September 8, 2022

The Social Dilemma - Discussion Ideas

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

                                https://netflixtechblog.com




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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