Re:PowerPollen’s ‘on-demand’ pollination tech could make bee...
by BiteCode_dev on Thursday April 29, 2021 @05:13AM
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Ok, then buy insulin shots from the same company that sold you ice cream and soda.
It creates all the wrong incentives and a dangerous positive feedback loop.
Re:PowerPollen’s ‘on-demand’ pollination tech could make bee...
by Dylan16807 on Thursday April 29, 2021 @05:18AM
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> Ok, then buy insulin shots from the same company that sold you ice cream and soda.
> It creates all the wrong incentives and a dangerous positive feedback loop.
It does create some bad incentives for that company.
(While creating really good incentives for other companies to come along and offer their own insulin, or ice cream that doesn't make you need insulin.)
But I don't find it strange that the customer decides they'd rather buy insulin than not have insulin! That's not stockholm syndrome!
(And don't say "stop buying ice cream", for the analogy to work the original product has to benefit the buyer even with full knowledge of the consequences.)
In that case the mitigations could be merged into the product. And it's not about "secretly" attacking your privacy; to make the analogy work you're someone that chooses to keep buying even though it's open knowledge that it attacks your privacy.
> Or to buy drinkable water in bottle from the same company that polluted your river.
Are you buying the pollution in the first place because it benefits you even more in some other way? If not then it's a completely different scenario.