> There is also a net benefit to having more accurate predictions on who will make a good tenant. > Social Credit has nothing to do with it. The goal of social

> There is also a net benefit to having more accurate predictions on who will make a good tenant. > Social Credit has nothing to do with it. The goal of social credit is to discourage dissent. That's the law of unintended consequences though. A well-intentioned system designed to determine who is and isn't a good tenant ends up having a chilling effect on online conversation as a whole because people are worried their prospective landlord, business partner, romantic partner won't want to deal with a Tory / Labour voter / UKIP voter / Trump supporter delete as appropriate. As Schneier points out in his book, it's the same technology used by Disneyland to match people's to their photos when they've been on Big Thunder Mountain as is used to pick out dissidents at political demos in Russia. Inherent in cost-benefit calculations is a tendency to overestimate short term individual benefits and underestimate long term social harms.