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Increase demand for their products. Overweight people eat more. Creating obese people needn't have been a corporate goal; a blind optimization process could ha
by barrkel 9y ago
Increase demand for their products.
Overweight people eat more. Creating obese people needn't have been a corporate goal; a blind optimization process could have produced the same outcome. Just tweak the product until it sells more.
- awongh 9y agothis is exactly what's happening with digital media. Optimize for human attention. Direct real time feedback on how people react to your media. Tweak for more attention. Repeat. No intentional malice needed.