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IMF working paper suggests using browsing history in credit score calculations

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Re: IMF working paper suggests using browsing history in credit score calculations

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Hey, they got that system in place already in China! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System Go to HackerNews, post a dissenting topic, enjoy no travel or credit! Work in a high compliance job where you have to submit financials yearly, no more!

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Re: IMF working paper suggests using browsing history in credit score calculations

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This is the standard misattribution that comes up all the time in bad faith, especially online. "[Organization] published X, therefore that's what they believe." No, the IMF/NYT/News channel (or whoever) publishes opinion pieces all the time without agreeing with them.

You are not incorrect. That said, to use your words, organization X does not publish Y without certain level of support for Y within X.

You seem unaware that there are many opinion or whatever sections within organizations that are designed to publish things they consider provocative and of sufficient quality (and possibly by people in sufficient power to make their opinions into fact). And excellent example is the NYT regularly publishes opinion pieces from politicians all around the political spectrum. In other cases (CNN's Crossfire was a very bad example of this idea) the same organization tries to publish both Y and !Y often side by side to present a fuller view.

Re: IMF working paper suggests using browsing history in credit score calculations

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A better conversation is whether IMF/credit scores deserve to exist in the first place. Didn't these geniuses JUST add field-specific search to SWIFT, so orders for "cubanos" don't get held up because of Cuba sanctions? Maybe these clueless old men should stick to what they know - mountains of physical paperwork and pointless policies and procedures, and stay away from anything that uses electricity or internet. Bitc…

>A better conversation is whether IMF/credit scores deserve to exist in the first place

>Bitcon/DeFi will render them obsolete in a few years' time anyway.

Credit scores exist because banks want to know how likely they're going to get their money back. I'm not sure how that'd be replaced with "bitcoin/difi". Most of the "loans" I see are difi are either flash loans or overcolateralized loans, which have limited application to typical consumer loans (eg. car loan or mortgage).

Re: IMF working paper suggests using browsing history in credit score calculations

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Hey, they got that system in place already in China! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System Go to HackerNews, post a dissenting topic, enjoy no travel or credit! Work in a high compliance job where you have to submit financials yearly, no more!

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Stop spreading disinformation and conspiracy theories here please.

Re: IMF working paper suggests using browsing history in credit score calculations

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Hey, they got that system in place already in China! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System Go to HackerNews, post a dissenting topic, enjoy no travel or credit! Work in a high compliance job where you have to submit financials yearly, no more!

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And for every step, WE WILL CHEER THEM ON.

Re: IMF working paper suggests using browsing history in credit score calculations

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The recent Chinese crackdown on tech entities and their use of data hints that the shape of the digital financial landscape depends sensitively on what is deemed acceptable (read: legal) information flow in any jurisdiction.

In this sense digital finance will be created by decree rather than as the unavoidable culmimation of some particular "tech innovation".

Underneath the huge risks there is always the potential that easier collection and dissemination of information will support a "better" financial system, somehow combining the best rather than the worst of "fin" and "tech".

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Stop spreading disinformation and conspiracy theories here please.

How is it disinformation? Is it because it's not currently being used for evil purposes that we can't say it will theoretically be used for evil purposes in the future? Should we label all the anti-apple CSAM blog posts as "disinformation" because apple says it will only be used for CSAM and definitely wouldn't use it for political purposes?

Re: IMF working paper suggests using browsing history in credit score calculations

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Hey, they got that system in place already in China! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System Go to HackerNews, post a dissenting topic, enjoy no travel or credit! Work in a high compliance job where you have to submit financials yearly, no more!

And you can lose your job for posting a controversial opinion in the US, completely privatized.

It's a way more stable system. Allow a very narrow band of opinions in practice while claiming that everyone's free to think whatever they want in theory.

Re: IMF working paper suggests using browsing history in credit score calculations

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Stop spreading disinformation and conspiracy theories here please.

Stop calling opinions and projection of a possible future 'disinformation and conspiracy theories'. That you disagree with something does not make it disinformation. Nor a conspiracy theory.
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