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Re:The odd reality of life under China's all-seeing credit s... by JorgeGT on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @11:30AM (#17247927)
> I wonder if increasing adoption of this system will create a black market of 'score hackers'

Well, Campbell's law...

> "The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor."

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Re:The odd reality of life under China's all-seeing credit s... by LiweiZ on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @01:11PM (#17248949)
Just for those interested: "All Systems will be Gamed: Exploitive Behavior in Economic and Social Systems," in Complexity and the Economy, W. B. Arthur (2014) http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~wbarthur/Papers/All%20Systems%20G...
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