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You wouldn't consider it evil to push bad products onto thousands of people with a technological tool, where before you could only push that product onto hundre
by WhompingWindows 9y ago
You wouldn't consider it evil to push bad products onto thousands of people with a technological tool, where before you could only push that product onto hundreds?
- ThomPete 9y agoSo it's evil because it's more successful? Not sure I understand the rationale here.
- marviel 9y agoIt's evil because it's a systematic way of hurting large groups of vulnerable people.
- thunfischbrot 9y agoTwo charts: x1: How much the product improves my life (judged based on how much I would be willing to buy it, asked after I acquired it) y1: How much the product costs x2: How much expendable income I have y2: How aware I am of how advertising influences my buying decisions Depending on where the marketed products/services and the targeted consumers land on these charts the answer to your questions may turn out very differently.
- double0jimb0 9y agoDo you have some example charts generated? Sounds interesting.
- cirgue 9y agoWhen you're successful on a large scale at doing something that is not in people's best interests, then yes I would consider that evil.
- Angostura 9y agoIt appears to me that the 'evilness' is being exhibited by the companies that decide to build crappy products. I don't see that Facebook algorithms designed to target people with similar profiles to those who have already clicked is inherently evil.
- throwaway2048 9y agothats where the "banal" part comes it, its a systematic, accepted practice that nobody questions.