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Uber/Fiverr/Upwork automate the trust aspect, so I can be assured decent service or I’ll get a refund and the provider’s reputation will be dinged. Outright sca

by trevyn 8y ago

Uber/Fiverr/Upwork automate the trust aspect, so I can be assured decent service or I’ll get a refund and the provider’s reputation will be dinged. Outright scams are hard to pull off in this environment. Amazon... I can only speculate what’s going on there. Maybe the resulting price pressure turns the screws on suppliers? And honestly I’ve never gotten a branded product from them that I thought was fake. This could just be a fulfillment optimization; there are obvious cost savings and efficiencies from commingling, and maybe they’re working on a solution now.

reaperducer 8y ago
Amazon... I can only speculate what’s going on there. Maybe the resulting price pressure turns the screws on suppliers? Scammers looking for places to scam, which Amazon provides by relying on customer ratings to police its suppliers, which clearly doesn't work. Most of the recent SV business models only work in a hypothetical place where everyone is good and altruistic. Look at self-driving cars. There are thousands of words written about how self-driving cars will create a transportation utopia with clean, efficient transportation for all. None of the startups address what happens when someone refuses to get out of a self-driving car. Or when a self-driving car arrives at my door and it's full of barf. Or some homeless guy decides to set up camp in there. Or it gets all graffiti tagged. Think about how people treat current modes of public transportation. Now imagine how miscreants will treat them with more privacy, and no chance of human intervention.
- plankers 8y ago
  Oh man, can't wait to see the future graffiti all over self-driving cars. Tech dystopia, here we come! But for real, it's for these reasons that Google et al. place such a high value on systems to identify and deanonymize people. In a world where all of your biometric data can be easily identified and linked back to you, there won't be much room for bad behavior. The real question is who gets to decide what behavior qualifies as "bad."
  - CaptainZapp 8y ago
    In a world where all of your biometric data can be easily identified and linked back to you, there won't be much room for bad behavior. That's a world that I sure as shit never want to inhabit.
    - barrow-rider 8y ago
      "John C. Doe III, according to hair and skin cell analysis on flakes left in the AUTO-CAR V9 you were transported in on 2027 SEPT 19th, you are being fined $300 DOLLARS for improper behavior. Said behavior was DIGITAL PENETRATION, NASAL IMPROPER DISPOSAL / DISPERSAL OF BODILY FLUIDS (NASAL) LEWD OR IMPROPER CONDUCT (NOSE-PICKING) Fine will be assessed from your credit number on file. Have a nice day."
thereisnospork 8y ago
If I can put on my tin-foil hat for a minute: Perhaps the long play is to intentionally reduce trust in competitors brands (read: anyone who isn't amazon) to push people towards an ever expanding amazon basics line, which are presumably more profitable.

by trevyn 8y ago

reaperducer 8y ago

Amazon... I can only speculate what’s going on there. Maybe the resulting price pressure turns the screws on suppliers? Scammers looking for places to scam, which Amazon provides by relying on customer ratings to police its suppliers, which clearly doesn't work. Most of the recent SV business models only work in a hypothetical place where everyone is good and altruistic. Look at self-driving cars. There are thousands of words written about how self-driving cars will create a transportation utopia with clean, efficient transportation for all. None of the startups address what happens when someone refuses to get out of a self-driving car. Or when a self-driving car arrives at my door and it's full of barf. Or some homeless guy decides to set up camp in there. Or it gets all graffiti tagged. Think about how people treat current modes of public transportation. Now imagine how miscreants will treat them with more privacy, and no chance of human intervention.

plankers 8y ago
Oh man, can't wait to see the future graffiti all over self-driving cars. Tech dystopia, here we come! But for real, it's for these reasons that Google et al. place such a high value on systems to identify and deanonymize people. In a world where all of your biometric data can be easily identified and linked back to you, there won't be much room for bad behavior. The real question is who gets to decide what behavior qualifies as "bad."
- CaptainZapp 8y ago
  In a world where all of your biometric data can be easily identified and linked back to you, there won't be much room for bad behavior. That's a world that I sure as shit never want to inhabit.
  - barrow-rider 8y ago
    "John C. Doe III, according to hair and skin cell analysis on flakes left in the AUTO-CAR V9 you were transported in on 2027 SEPT 19th, you are being fined $300 DOLLARS for improper behavior. Said behavior was DIGITAL PENETRATION, NASAL IMPROPER DISPOSAL / DISPERSAL OF BODILY FLUIDS (NASAL) LEWD OR IMPROPER CONDUCT (NOSE-PICKING) Fine will be assessed from your credit number on file. Have a nice day."

thereisnospork 8y ago

If I can put on my tin-foil hat for a minute: Perhaps the long play is to intentionally reduce trust in competitors brands (read: anyone who isn't amazon) to push people towards an ever expanding amazon basics line, which are presumably more profitable.