If only the ad quality went up with the efficiency with which they syphon the data. I don’t have a driver’s license and I’m in a relationship yet a considerable amount of personalised ads on my devices are about dating sites and car dealerships.
At 32 min she talks about a book called "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About
Microcomputers, but didn't know who to ask" by Slater. I found a reference on archive but nothing more, also nothing on the author.
Leland W. Slater, "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About
Microcomputers," Computop i cs . 3/82, pp. 38ff.
I used to know one philosophy student in my student years and this was exactly the beaf I had with him at every single discussion. I believe this is part of the training, dissecting sentences.
I’d compare it to the sobriety test of being asked to walk in a straight line. someone who’s drunk will put a lot of effort in it, which is the giveaway.
You know those youtube videos where a puppet in an arena is shown and it’s iteratively selected/respawn/retrained for getting across an obstacle field? This is exactly that. First obstacle has been cleared and now the population is waiting for a mutation that gets them compatible with the human cell wall.
What you’re describing is called the law of conservation of misery. Misery is like a water-filled party balloon. If you squeeze it in one place it expands in another, often between your fingers.
We have recently developed a system that eliminates scarcity for all digital media. The results is not an ideological re-alignment but a crowbar that locks down the rules of scarcity.