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Regarding ads in solitaire. Due to the nature of investment, and the fact that rather than targeting the highest-quality product, Microsoft targeted short term

Regarding ads in solitaire. Due to the nature of investment, and the fact that rather than targeting the highest-quality product, Microsoft targeted short term revenue growth, so it is indeed possible to argue that dumbness made solitaire grow ads. Rather than speaking up, and demanding an end to corporate stock manipulation through buybacks, people accepted the product changes necessitated by the targeted revenue trajectory.

noobermin 4y ago
If we really want to go down this route, here's what I notice. I remember almost every single time a website changes its design (namely the major ones, like twitter, facebook, etc), a lot of people complain almost immediately, then the complaints stop and people adapt. The reality is such small nudges are below the threshold of pain, so people put up with it and adapt, and the next thing we know after many nudges later, my air filter needs to connect to wifi. Still, however we want to analyze it, I still don't know why we need to go after consumers over the people who actually did the deed, no? Why are consumers who do not make the design and development decisions become who I should focus on instead of the people who implemented the actual changes? If someone stabs me in a park, sure it is a sad state of affairs if no one will call the ambulance, but surely the fellow I should be more upset with should be the stabber, no, and not aloof by-standers?
- meltyness 4y ago
  This is the contention of politics, if you accept to live in a society that voted to rip out all the psychwards, and hiked taxes on the mentally ill then you should expect this. https://youtu.be/7eYcWpgCb7o https://youtu.be/7eYcWpgCb7o Concretely, investors over fairly short term demand differential risk, and convex return, and in the current season this means big tech works on decommodifying products, without necessarily improving bottom-line quality. It's also probably a fraudulent way for banks and financiers to extract cash from a large number of pensions and retirement funds, with the current constellation of made-up metrics like "user engagement", "ad revenue" and so on.
- klibertp 4y ago
  > If someone stabs me in a park, sure it is a sad state of affairs if no one will call the ambulance, but surely the fellow I should be more upset with should be the stabber, no, and not aloof by-standers? More like, if you go to the park that's closed off behind a wall, with signs saying "CRAZY KNIFE STABBING BASTARD INSIDE" all over the place, and get stabbed... Yeah, the stabber is in the wrong, but what you did is still stupid. It's a similar lack of foresight on the part of the public that allowed tech companies to boil that frog. That the companies act like batshit insane stabbers is obvious and expected. They could have been stopped at any point in the last twenty years. The fact that they hid the knife most of the time behind a fake smile and then stabbed the knife just deep enough for it to be "below the threshold of pain", repeatedly and consistently, should have raised alarm bells and sparked opposition. Instead, they were allowed to go all the way to AC needing WiFi connection. Yeah, there's no argument that tech companies are the perpetrators, but giving them a chance to act that way for so long is a failure of society.

noobermin 4y ago

If we really want to go down this route, here's what I notice. I remember almost every single time a website changes its design (namely the major ones, like twitter, facebook, etc), a lot of people complain almost immediately, then the complaints stop and people adapt. The reality is such small nudges are below the threshold of pain, so people put up with it and adapt, and the next thing we know after many nudges later, my air filter needs to connect to wifi. Still, however we want to analyze it, I still don't know why we need to go after consumers over the people who actually did the deed, no? Why are consumers who do not make the design and development decisions become who I should focus on instead of the people who implemented the actual changes? If someone stabs me in a park, sure it is a sad state of affairs if no one will call the ambulance, but surely the fellow I should be more upset with should be the stabber, no, and not aloof by-standers?

meltyness 4y ago
This is the contention of politics, if you accept to live in a society that voted to rip out all the psychwards, and hiked taxes on the mentally ill then you should expect this. https://youtu.be/7eYcWpgCb7o https://youtu.be/7eYcWpgCb7o Concretely, investors over fairly short term demand differential risk, and convex return, and in the current season this means big tech works on decommodifying products, without necessarily improving bottom-line quality. It's also probably a fraudulent way for banks and financiers to extract cash from a large number of pensions and retirement funds, with the current constellation of made-up metrics like "user engagement", "ad revenue" and so on.
klibertp 4y ago
> If someone stabs me in a park, sure it is a sad state of affairs if no one will call the ambulance, but surely the fellow I should be more upset with should be the stabber, no, and not aloof by-standers? More like, if you go to the park that's closed off behind a wall, with signs saying "CRAZY KNIFE STABBING BASTARD INSIDE" all over the place, and get stabbed... Yeah, the stabber is in the wrong, but what you did is still stupid. It's a similar lack of foresight on the part of the public that allowed tech companies to boil that frog. That the companies act like batshit insane stabbers is obvious and expected. They could have been stopped at any point in the last twenty years. The fact that they hid the knife most of the time behind a fake smile and then stabbed the knife just deep enough for it to be "below the threshold of pain", repeatedly and consistently, should have raised alarm bells and sparked opposition. Instead, they were allowed to go all the way to AC needing WiFi connection. Yeah, there's no argument that tech companies are the perpetrators, but giving them a chance to act that way for so long is a failure of society.