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tl;dr, anybody? What makes privacy inequality so bad? And is the inequality the problem, or the lack of privacy? (A parallel question can often be asked of weal
by Jeff_Brown 8y ago
tl;dr, anybody? What makes privacy inequality so bad? And is the inequality the problem, or the lack of privacy? (A parallel question can often be asked of wealth inequality.)
- Jeff_Brown 8y agoFound a collection of such, albeit not necessarily specifically in response to this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18829422 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18829422
- h0mEDw 8y agoI think the author does a rather mediocre job on explaining a point that's IMHO critically important. Here's Yuval Noah Harari explaining it much better: https://youtu.be/Bw9P_ZXWDJU?t=269 https://youtu.be/Bw9P_ZXWDJU?t=269 His basic argument is that: 1) free will has always been an illusion, 2) it was an acceptable one because generally no one knew you better than you know yourself, 3) with the advent of mass data processing (call it AI if you want) the premise 2 breaks down, and we should be skeptical of trusting people's judgement. For example, the fundamental ideas underpinning liberal democracies and capitalism ("the customer is always right", "this is what voters want", ...) become unreliable.