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there is nothing elevated about HN, that is your brain playing tricks on you. Privacy is an illusion, self is an illusion. smart people are manipulated just as
by MrMan 6y ago
there is nothing elevated about HN, that is your brain playing tricks on you. Privacy is an illusion, self is an illusion. smart people are manipulated just as easily as dumb people, by people who have been studying how to do it, and now with mass social media, have the tools to do it.
- hutzlibu 6y agoWell, I would say here on HN at least the general bar is higher. And sure, anybody can be manipulated, but also, with different amount of effort. Tricking my young family teenage members into buying something shiny they don't really need? Not too hard, show a cool ad or pay some influencer to feature the product in a way. Getting people of the HN crowd to buy somehing shiny they don't need? Lets say, the new KI assistance? I would say, that is a lot harder, as most people here understand how (political) marketing works. And once you understand, you don't fall for it so easily.
- jeromenerf 6y ago> Getting people of the HN crowd to buy somehing shiny they don't need? Lets say, the new KI assistance? I would say, that is a lot harder, as most people here understand how (political) marketing works. Maybe easier actually, but different. Bigger flats, Apple products, travels, cloud services ... The arguments used may appeal to meaning, sense, evolution, progress ... instead of comfort, fear, luxury ... just as easily and probably more profitably.