Re:Luxury Surveillance
by heywherelogingo on Thursday July 15, 2021 @08:48AM
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No, it's not amazing - just read all the i-need-facebook-because excuses all over this site, or the i-use-chrome-because, or the i-use-amazon-because, i-use-gmail-because... They're impossible to miss, and even on "hacker" news the apathy and myopia is rampant.
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People having different parameters than you do to their cost-benefit analysis doesn't make them myopic and you somehow more insightful.
Re:Luxury Surveillance
by captainredbeard on Thursday July 15, 2021 @09:27AM
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If those parameters are “short term” focused at the expense of long term success, how isn’t that myopic? How isn’t refusal to do the same insight?
Short-term informs long-term, and like it or not, most people aren't super accurate precogs. Short term is the default. Long-term has to be trained and requires both experience and a lot of effort to develop and keep accurate.
I don't think this is a case of short term vs long term. Due to marketing the value of surveillance products seem obvious whereas the downsides sound like techno babble to the average user.
This is a straw man argument. GP is talking about valuing outcomes differently.
Re:Luxury Surveillance
by heywherelogingo on Thursday July 15, 2021 @01:07PM
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Just apathetic?