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> the value these cloud/AI assistants give me is worth the loss of privacy they've got you right where they want you.
by gaucheries 4y ago
> the value these cloud/AI assistants give me is worth the loss of privacy
they've got you right where they want you.
- csallen 4y agoHe seems to have them right where we he wants them, too. Mutual transaction. Everybody's happy.
- xcambar 4y agoThe benefits of the consumer measures in comfort or social status, mostly. The benefits of the producer measures in dollars. However you balance it, the producer wins. By many orders of magnitude. And since were talking about privacy and personal data, the more consumers there are, the more the producers improve their margin on each and all consumers.
- csallen 4y agoWhy is it a competition? If you give me a slice of cake, and I give you $5, and we're both happy with that, why should I care if you're somehow "winning" or I'm "losing"? That mindset seems like a self-fulling prophecy that robs me of my satisfaction. Also, I would argue that receiving money does not mean the producer wins, since ultimately the producer is also a consumer, and who will thus be spending those dollars on the same things as every other consumer… comfort and status, as you put it.
- phendrenad2 4y agoVague snipes like this are generally not allowed on HN, FYI. (Source: I've done it myself too many times)
- gaucheries 4y agoyou're falsely characterizing my observation as a vague snipe.
- phendrenad2 4y agoJust trying to help.