So I saw a post recently elsewhere:
> 300 'smart' devices all around you, collecting data from all aspects and angles, working together to decipher your personality and preferences... just to put it on the open market for $0.10
People keep saying this like it's a bad thing.
The only bad thing about it is that it will cost $0.10, whereas I, being _homo economicus_, want my preferences on the open market for free. I might even be willing to pay a small amount to make people take and use them.
Preference-satisfiers knowing what your preferences are is, like, the first and most necessary step in them being able to satisfy your preferences.
Why in the name of Moloch's granite cock would you ever want the world to be _less_ able to satisfy your preferences?
@cerebrate spoken like someone who has never been in danger from the government because of what they were
@zarpaulus When you have shared the experience of being dragged from your bed at machine-gun point by the Feds - prompted by your suspicious data trail - you may then presume to make that argument to me.
Not before.
@cerebrate I think we both know that had your skin been darker or your sexuality less conventional, you’d likely be dead or in prison
I think we both also know you’re heading off on a tangent of dubious relevance at least twice over, too.
@cerebrate I’m just explaining why so few people aren’t as cavalier with their information as you. We live in a world where almost everyone has secrets that can get them killed, and no amount of social media data vacuuming is going to change that.
And making things worse is how many lawsuits had to be filed before we knew what they knew, and by then we were all hopelessly addicted to the product.
I regret that I will not be continuing this thread on the advice of my post-traumatic stress AI.
I mean, you do you, since you hiding your preferences while I expose mine means that statistically the world will be aligned a little bit closer to me and further away from you, and you probably have shit taste because you're not me. So good for me, I guess.
But I nonetheless have a strong preference for reminding everyone that making it harder for the world to become a better place is unsane behavior.