Re:The World Will Be Our Skinner Box
by quotemstr on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @11:53AM
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Is that so? If you look at people's behavior, most people seem to accept targeted advertising. Every bit of evidence I've seen indicates that the outrage against the practice comes from a small minority with a disproportionate voice --- much like many other sources of chronic public outrage today. Regular people, to the best of my knowledge, don't care.
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I think most people have no idea what is going on and literally would not be able to understand it even if it were laid out in black and white. Even then, most people "understand" that smoking causes cancer. Behavior is not always a good predictor of people's internal mental states. Addiction is real. Damn that dopamine. Is smoking somehow fine because lots of people do it and it kills you slow? (I say that as someone who can't help but have a cig now and then).