superjambo
The fear is that big data tech will become radioactive.
Imagine a bus full of school kids crashes because the driver was a recovering alcoholic who fell off the wagon.
Some smart SV engineer realizes their tech spotted the driver visited AA groups regularly & his wife just left him. The algorithm knows this data makes him an excellent target audience for _new alco-energy drink!_.
It doesn't really matter if the technology is even capable of that yet, what matters is that this is the sort of outcome that adtech engineers are trying to create.
To me this and the trade war with China suggest that the US is losing it's status as pre-eminent super power. The crown is slipping and the vultures circle.
Worrying times really.
I mean if that is just too difficult then what hope do they have of developing anything.
But if the laws are written so that they don't apply to the king in the first place of course the law is just.
It's a double cost to society too since not only are peoples buying decisions warped but the people creating adverts are doing negative work instead of producing more useful goods / services.
Women do not in my experience value pay as highly and consider the (non-monetary) costs more carefully than men.
So any man choosing higher discomfort for more pay isn't just getting more money he's also improving his chance of finding a mate.
Meanwhile women have a smaller incentive to take discomfort since they will not get the compensation of enhanced attractiveness.