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Well, a technology expert is - in aggregate - more trustworthy than a politician because their incentives align with yours. This isn't to say that every techno
by MrLeap 10y ago
Well, a technology expert is - in aggregate - more trustworthy than a politician because their incentives align with yours.
This isn't to say that every technology expert can be trusted. The hope is that many eyes looking at the problem helps move the needle.
Politics might as well be the science of deception. My pithy opinion is that nearly everyone is more trustworthy than a politician.
- TheSpiceIsLife 10y agoWell, a technology expert is - in aggregate - more trustworthy than a politician because their incentives align with yours. This is ... myopic. Do you think ransomeware is written by politicians? All malicious software is written by technology experts. Is not that I trust politicians, far from it: we know they're all lying crooked thieves. But you think "technology experts are more trustworthy."
- MrLeap 10y agoIf you think ransomware affects the aggregate that much, i'd call that hyperopic.
- fulafel 10y agoTechnology experts will be more often working against your interests than politicians, because politicians will usually have some public interest motive and voter accountability, technology experts often work for "ad tech" and spooks.
- AlexandrB 10y agoI'm not sure why this was downvoted, but it's right on. Government didn't give us Facebook's or Google's pervasive data collection Facebook/Google's "technology experts" did.
- closeparen 10y agoA technology expert is - in aggregate - working for a company that derives its revenue from user data in some way.