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If your are solely data driven, without any higher vision ( eg creating enriching experiences ) then this is what you get ( and Coca Cola and high sugar and fat
by DrScientist 7y ago
If your are solely data driven, without any higher vision ( eg creating enriching experiences ) then this is what you get ( and Coca Cola and high sugar and fat burgers and fake news ).
The question is - is it solely buyer/user beware or do the vendors have a duty of care? Note these games products are often aimed at children.
The opioids and tabacco lawsuits would suggest people expect companies to have have some duty of care.
In the gambling industry, governments tend to strongly regulate, and place duty of care rules on companies.
As data and machine learning leads to optimization of exploitation of human weaknesses for gain, what do we do?
There are already open source games - how would you manage that? make it illegal - imprison people?? ( like for drug use )?
This problem is at the heart of the question of freewill/or whether the strong should be allowed to ruthlessly exploit the weak.
- swiley 7y ago>There are already open source games - how would you manage that? make it illegal - imprison people?? ( like for drug use )? That is interesting, I've definitely gone through periods where I felt "addicted" to freeciv and openTTD. I wouldn't make them illegal though, they can be helpful tools for managing your mental state.
- DrScientist 7y agoNot suggesting freeciv should be made illegal - just a thought experiment. So if it was decided they are harmful - you could consider the drug analogy. Making with intent to supply is illegal or being involved in distribution - not actually sure about creation for own use. It might sound like a silly idea - but some countries have actually banned video games. Malaysia banned arcade games about 20 years ago. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/957636.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/957636.stm
- swiley 7y agoMy reaction to that is maybe the philosophy of making potentially harmful things like that illegal might be wrong.
- DrScientist 7y agoActually that's how the law typically treats things. However it often takes a different view on profiting/promoting/supplying harmful things. Back to the point about free will - versus whether people should be allowed to ruthlessly exploit others. Quite often people are allowed to do stupid things to themselves ( free will ) , but other people are not allowed to exploit it.