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Right, but the game theory there is pretty obvious: The better an ad is at "hacking" your mind and exploiting human characteristics, the more money it makes. Wh
by MauranKilom 6y ago
Right, but the game theory there is pretty obvious: The better an ad is at "hacking" your mind and exploiting human characteristics, the more money it makes. Which naturally leads to this insane spiral of increasingly manipulative and insidious ads.
If your single purpose in life was to play board games with your wife, you would probably also observe these tendencies in your questions.
- skinkestek 6y ago> The better an ad is at "hacking" your mind and exploiting human characteristics, the more money it makes. The same can be said about any negotiation or even any interaction, can't it? Yet there are some people and some companies you like and some that you don't like. I've been a customer liaison at a place where the customer actively went out of their way to see our sales guy; yes, it cost them money but he'd get them a better deal the they could on their own or with any other vendor they knew. He'd actively reduce his sale if possible without even mentioning but the customer had been with us for years and had noticed the pattern. There's no reason why ads aren't a spectrum as well: I see nothing wrong with a link to "this is the gear that I use" on a clearly marked page as long as they actually use it. Or a couple of books. ("You must read these 30 books to be a successful <x>" is of course another thing entirely.)