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Quote from OA that caught my eye as well... "...We’re in the midst of a technological revolution. That gives con artists huge opportunities. People lose their

Quote from OA that caught my eye as well... "...We’re in the midst of a technological revolution. That gives con artists huge opportunities. People lose their frame of reference for what can and can’t be real." So I suppose the hypothesis is that more people have defective bullshit detectors during big changes in any given field. A possible test of the hypothesis would be to look at fraud prosecutions by domain of deception (high tech stocks, property development) and by choice of victim (newly rich technical people, people new to a country &c) and see how those vary with time.

jib 8y ago
Microsoft doesn’t know that you have a virus on your PC (and won’t call you about it) but Facebook can identify your friends in a photo you posted better than you can. That is not obvious to most people, because the concept of customer service we understand, while we really don’t understand learning algorithms.
- acqq 8y ago
  > Microsoft doesn’t know that you have a virus on your PC But technically Microsoft definitely can know that, if that were its goal. There's nothing technologically lacking to have that knowledge. Most probably it simply doesn't use that information, specifically doesn’t call random users.