superjambo

It doesn't need to be consistent in order to be horrifying.

The fear is that big data tech will become radioactive.

Imagine a bus full of school kids crashes because the driver was a recovering alcoholic who fell off the wagon.

Some smart SV engineer realizes their tech spotted the driver visited AA groups regularly & his wife just left him. The algorithm knows this data makes him an excellent target audience for _new alco-energy drink!_.

It doesn't really matter if the technology is even capable of that yet, what matters is that this is the sort of outcome that adtech engineers are trying to create.

and Iran.. Maybe Egypt? Turkey of course claims there too (though I don't believe it).

To me this and the trade war with China suggest that the US is losing it's status as pre-eminent super power. The crown is slipping and the vultures circle.

Worrying times really.

Or perhaps the developers could just request consent before taking your data?

I mean if that is just too difficult then what hope do they have of developing anything.

I mean if the laws are only enforced selectively against the kings enemies it makes a mockery of the rule of law.

But if the laws are written so that they don't apply to the king in the first place of course the law is just.

Or opium in the noodles... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/09/2...

could be ISPs trying to improve user security generally to prevent lots of their customers becoming DDOS zombies resulting in more contention & customer complaints.

Except that in the US inequality is a large factor in the maintenance of poverty since your super rich & rich corps seem so keen on keeping your broken markets in healthcare and removing any social safety net on food whilst they drive up the price of high demand housing.

Eh we should just kill it with regulation. Emotive advertising is simply a market distortion similar to monopolies or cartels.

It's a double cost to society too since not only are peoples buying decisions warped but the people creating adverts are doing negative work instead of producing more useful goods / services.

Sorry I was not talking about physical discomfort but all negative aspects of a job. Men have a greater incentive to seek high pay & status at the price of longer commute / longer hours.

Women do not in my experience value pay as highly and consider the (non-monetary) costs more carefully than men.

I think it would be because women tend to value the economic worth of potential mates more than men value the economic worth of potential mates.

So any man choosing higher discomfort for more pay isn't just getting more money he's also improving his chance of finding a mate.

Meanwhile women have a smaller incentive to take discomfort since they will not get the compensation of enhanced attractiveness.