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The idea of a social credit score is fantastic. I too believe it would decrease the rate of crime (although that's only a small part of its potential benefits).
by miguelrochefort 8y ago
The idea of a social credit score is fantastic. I too believe it would decrease the rate of crime (although that's only a small part of its potential benefits). You don't need to be uneducated or Chinese to see it.
The problem is the way the system is implemented. It's centralized and managed by an authoritarian government. There's no way they can craft a fair and balanced system this way, whether they have good intentions or not.
I think it's a good idea to make people understand the risk of centralized systems (especially when it's for something as important as this), but we shouldn't scare people away from great ideas such as social credit systems.
- oever 8y agoDo you see a way to make a fair decentralized social credit score? The rules on which participants are scored should be agreed upon. The system should be tamper-proof. A court is needed too.
- abc-xyz 8y agoIt's an absolutely terrifying idea with little benefits and some of the scariest drawbacks imaginable. You decrease crime rate by improving quality of life, by providing good education and healthcare to all citizens. You don't do it by building a surveillance state that reward citizens for supporting the authoritarian government's views (e.g. by spreading the propaganda like you're doing now), while punishing citizens who engage in behaviour that the government doesn't like (e.g. talking about the tiananmen square massacre, concentration camps, organ harvesting, etc.).
- foopmagnet68 8y agoWas waiting for this. Training the masses to behave for profit. Genius. Straight out of Orwell. Only a matter of time I guess.