Life is an iterated game. I can see an appeal in living in a video-game kind of world where your counterparty to each interaction treats it as fresh, doesn't ev

Life is an iterated game. I can see an appeal in living in a video-game kind of world where your counterparty to each interaction treats it as fresh, doesn't even really have an interior experience while it's happening, and forgets it immediately after. I can also see downsides. But that's besides the point. We don't live in that world. In our universe, interaction is a two way street. Both parties to an interaction have an interior experience of it, and that experience contributes to memory (both literal records and subtle formation of impressions/intuitions), and those memories shape the next experience. The framings "your privacy," "your data," "stealing" are interesting and provocative in some cases but I see the more extreme forms of this as pining for a world in which you are the only stateful or intelligent agent. We have never lived in that world, and I don't share your conviction that we obviously or morally ought to.