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Similar level of interest and tracking, and I thought the same about CCP and their ability to enforce order, but this [1] gives an interesting counter argument,
by sails 7y ago
Similar level of interest and tracking, and I thought the same about CCP and their ability to enforce order, but this [1] gives an interesting counter argument, with an interesting hypothesis [2] below:
> Tufekci argues that one of the second order effects of a surveillance society is that people act strategically to minimise the chance of punishment - and so their behaviour (and the data it generates) ceases to be a good guide for policy. If there’s a strong incentive to suppress bad news, you won’t hear bad news, even when you need to.
[1] How the Coronavirus Revealed Authoritarianism’s Fatal Flaw
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/02/coronavirus-and-blindness-authoritarianism/606922/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/02/coron...
[2]https://www.getrevue.co/profile/mattclifford/issues/tib-103-can-machine-learning-save-communism-coronavirus-and-authoritarianism-how-to-save-science-and-more-229047 https://www.getrevue.co/profile/mattclifford/issues/tib-103-...
- allovernow 7y agoSure, it's like those stories about governments incentivising people to hunt pests by paying for body parts...eventually people circumvent the metrics in a counterproductive manner, in the animals case by breeding the pests instead of capturing them.