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Re:“The Pirate Bay can’t be stopped,” co-founder says by stcredzero on Sunday November 28, 2021 @08:01PM (#29375101)
the A/B testing naturally favors "dark patterns" - it's not malicious design, it's just unintended consequences

Could there be such a thing as "meta-malicious design?" Bad consequences aren't executed directly, but conditions are put in place that cause the emergence of bad consequences.

I suspect, if AI ever does away with Homo sapiens it will be by convincing us not to breed by changing our incentive structures.

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Re:“The Pirate Bay can’t be stopped,” co-founder says by GekkePrutser on Sunday November 28, 2021 @11:11PM (#29376275)
> I suspect, if AI ever does away with Homo sapiens it will be by convincing us not to breed by changing our incentive structures.

I think it'll be by just sitting back and waiting a few decades :)

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Re:“The Pirate Bay can’t be stopped,” co-founder says by stcredzero on Monday November 29, 2021 @01:09PM (#29383037)
I think it'll be by just sitting back and waiting a few decades :)

The sci-fi tinfoil hat interpretation of this: It's already here, or at least its cronies and enablers, and the plan has already been put into effect.

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Re:“The Pirate Bay can’t be stopped,” co-founder says by teddyh on Monday November 29, 2021 @06:10AM (#29378458)
“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”

— John Stuart Mill, 1867

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Re:“The Pirate Bay can’t be stopped,” co-founder says by stcredzero on Monday November 29, 2021 @01:07PM (#29383005)
I'm talking about the good people not even knowing what's happening, until they engage in data analysis.
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