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Making choices out of a selection determined by someone else is not freedom. They have this freedom even in places like North Korea...

• randallsquared 13y ago
  Choices don't seem be to constrained. Rather, there is more information about the likely outcome of making many of the most likely choices. Seems like a huge win to me. I can still be ignored or turned off. It's still possible to just walk out and go elsewhere.
  • swombat 13y ago
    It's worth considering this dystopia in parallel with this the oft-quoted saying that "In the future, there will be two kinds of people: those who tell computers what to do, and those who are told what to do by computers". Then throw in this: http://www.economist.com/news/business/21578360-brain-work-may-be-going-way-manual-work-age-smart-machines http://www.economist.com/news/business/21578360-brain-work-m... Perhaps the first group will dwindle faster than we think.
    • weavejester 13y ago
      We're all told what to do by computers anyway, it's just that they happen to be 3lbs of squishy biomatter inside our skulls.