4 ms·

I both agree and disagree with you at the same time. Yes, social scoring would be easy to implement. However for it to work you would need critical mass of peo

I both agree and disagree with you at the same time. Yes, social scoring would be easy to implement. However for it to work you would need critical mass of people believing in it. If you live in Minnesota and somebody in DC says that your score is low you can kinda just ignore it. When you local milkman stops selling you milk because of it, then things get dark. However your local milkman can already have "a score" for you which is even worse than that one from DC. E.g. not selling you milk because you are gay or have a green mohawk. HN attracts specific technical audience who tends to see things from very technical (hard, logical) point of view. However what I want to stress here are "softer" things - how society works, how people interact, how they sell out, what they want to achieve with this etc. It is much harder to define and is much scarier TBH. It might be a good idea to be nice to your neighbors, demonstrate only mild opinions, basically just "hide in a gray mass of people" before you start setting up your own email servers, degoogle yourself and etc if you are thinking about fascist government taking over. For technology or corporations to betray you, you most probably be betrayed by society before that.

pydry 6y ago
>If you live in Minnesota and somebody in DC says that your score is low you can kinda just ignore it. Did you ask the Chinese citizens in Chongqing if they can "just ignore" their social score coz they're not in Beijing? The answer may surprise.
- AndrewThrowaway 6y ago
  My thought is that if fascist government takes over, Minnesota at first would be something like Hong Kong. It is not like social scoring could/would happen overnight. At first you would need a lot of people to believe in it, a lot of people to support it and etc. I understand that things would not so simple of course. My main message is that technology is only a tool, it is still people, society doing the act.

pydry 6y ago

>If you live in Minnesota and somebody in DC says that your score is low you can kinda just ignore it. Did you ask the Chinese citizens in Chongqing if they can "just ignore" their social score coz they're not in Beijing? The answer may surprise.

AndrewThrowaway 6y ago
My thought is that if fascist government takes over, Minnesota at first would be something like Hong Kong. It is not like social scoring could/would happen overnight. At first you would need a lot of people to believe in it, a lot of people to support it and etc. I understand that things would not so simple of course. My main message is that technology is only a tool, it is still people, society doing the act.