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Exactly. Given this system, there might actually be more incentive to create startups, as earning potential from a traditional job is limited.

Cable providers have been the worst with this in my experience. No matter what you do it takes an ungodly amount of time to cancel service.

There was a great Behavioral Economics course on Coursera taught by Dan Ariely that touched on methods like these, as well as subtler ones. I think the slide on Organ Donation was from him. https://class.coursera.org/behavioralecon-001/class

I've not had the time to go through the Hinton course fully myself, but the Coursera link is still up - https://www.coursera.org/course/neuralnets

You should still be able to register/download the materials. That's what I did.