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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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No, what we have to look at is economic incentives. There can never be enough police to shut down activities that align with economic motives. This is why prohibitions don't work. No amount of regulation can keep up with perverse incentives, given the pace of innovation. This is also why almost no one was prosecuted for financial fraud connected with the Great Recession.

The only effective point to intervene, to fight creepiness, is in the fundamental economic model. If the economic model tends to bring out noncreepy developments, then only true creeps will want to be creepy. [...]

I agree with his point on economic incentives but just wish he would extend that to all the problems he talks about (re: Siren Servers) and not just "creepiness"

—p.311 Creepy (305) by Jaron Lanier 7 years, 2 months ago