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I actual enjoyed this article and, more broadly, the subject of the governance of love. How much intrusion into our private (truly private) lives is enough? Are

I actual enjoyed this article and, more broadly, the subject of the governance of love. How much intrusion into our private (truly private) lives is enough? Are relationships, to a point, meant to be held in the public eye or can they be private? Granted, I'm a bit paranoid and pretty private. I've had a Facebook account in the past, but only used it to poke fun at people, but didn't care for the inevitable drama that followed (turns out, when you have a laugh at someone's outlandish political views face to face, you'll be fine but online, with those same friends, they view that interaction completely different). Obviously, by this small sampling of my personal self, I don't think highly of a governmental intrusion into personal relationships, but I'm pragmatic enough to understand their documentation and categorization. So I ask you this, HN. How much governmental intrusion into our private lives in enough? Also, how much intrusion into our personal lives do you think a semi-connected group of peers (our Facebook "friends") should get?

shrimp_emoji 10y ago
Both Facebook and relationships are for jive normies.
tgragnato 10y ago
Personally, I don't fear being snooped on or to have my comms eavesdropped. What I really fear is the interpretation perpetrated by whatever machine or whoever live-being. The view that more information produces better decisions is at odds with the world around us. What has always made a difference is our `incomprehensible` capacity to grasp someone with our emotional intelligence. Until there will not exist digital computers equipped with (digital) mirror neurons, until people will not think to empathy as something prioritized to a bunch of data, I'm not going to accept the judgment of none.
- rm_-rf_slash 10y ago
  There's an excellent episode of Star Trek Voyager where the Borg crewmate Seven of Nine installs a component into her brain that lets her sift through Voyager's immense dataset, and results in her secretly telling the first officer that she believes that the captain is a part of a grand and dark conspiracy. Then she runs the dataset again, and goes to the captain to say the exact same thing about the first officer.

shrimp_emoji 10y ago

Both Facebook and relationships are for jive normies.

tgragnato 10y ago

Personally, I don't fear being snooped on or to have my comms eavesdropped. What I really fear is the interpretation perpetrated by whatever machine or whoever live-being. The view that more information produces better decisions is at odds with the world around us. What has always made a difference is our `incomprehensible` capacity to grasp someone with our emotional intelligence. Until there will not exist digital computers equipped with (digital) mirror neurons, until people will not think to empathy as something prioritized to a bunch of data, I'm not going to accept the judgment of none.

rm_-rf_slash 10y ago
There's an excellent episode of Star Trek Voyager where the Borg crewmate Seven of Nine installs a component into her brain that lets her sift through Voyager's immense dataset, and results in her secretly telling the first officer that she believes that the captain is a part of a grand and dark conspiracy. Then she runs the dataset again, and goes to the captain to say the exact same thing about the first officer.