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Re:Console Do Not Track – Proposal for a standard environmen... by renewiltord on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @03:01PM (#27752868)
I am actually not being sarcastic. It is a life goal for me to have most policy organized to serve me or people like me (along whatever genetic/social/cultural/economic grouping is most likely to benefit me). i.e. I encourage communities not like me to refuse participation in medical research, forcing participants to be in my ethnic group; I encourage stringent data sharing norms and a culture of fear around what is done with health data in socio-economic and ethnic groups that are not mine; I encourage organizations to have strict opt-in requirements, in general, which I have no problem meeting, so that tools are built to be best used by me and adequate for others.

My dream is that everything is above the adequacy threshold for everyone else so that they don't build their own equivalent tool but that everything is also past my pleasantness threshold. I think the most effective means of doing this is to focus existing products into being past my pleasantness threshold while ignoring others since high switching costs keep most people on the same path they were before, and because things like medical research they don't really get to re-optimize.

I understand that this sounds sarcastic, but it is not.

Re:Console Do Not Track – Proposal for a standard environmen... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @03:05PM (#27752927)
Well... then I apologize for assuming. I'm not sure how such philosophy sits with me, I need to think about it more. One thing for sure, what you say makes you the model of an ideal free market participant :).