Re:My dream of the great unbundling
by paraknight on Sunday April 11, 2021 @04:20AM
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IMO people's opinions are more malleable than one might think, as long as you package the message in the right way and slowly modify it over time. E.g. you would start by telling the anti-vaxer that anti-vax propaganda is a conspiracy by the Chinese to make Americans weaker (I'm exaggerating, but you get the point)
The author wrote that data-megaminer corporations could perhaps spend a tiny fraction of their behavior modification budget for a net benefit to society.
Somehow you read, "Hire an RMS to yell exactly the same hour-long screed at each and every user."
A considerable portion of the population is cynical and jaded, or sees your concern as identification with the opposite political faction than the one they support, and so they may have a kneejerk reaction to any idealism about making the world a better place. Talking to them overtly about pressing social and environmental problems is just going to turn them off. If you want those problems tackled, then you have to use a more subtle approach.
It is just like when some say a carbon tax that puts subconscious pressure on the population's spending, is a better solution than trying to appeal directly to people’s sense of morality.