Earlier quoted context omitted.
Currently playing the same game with my health insurance, who suggest linking my watch health metrics to "boost my health score". (I'm currently bronze and I could be at Silver! Someone must have watched the gamification TED talk). Not wanting my insurer to have that data presumably to them means I'm unfit, rather than skeptical of what they're going to do with it
First they have to know or infer with reasonable certainty that you have a fitness tracker to even attempt a further inference that you're not sharing the data because you're lazy. So if they somehow can profile you well enough to know that you already lost the privacy game.
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#14> Already, some apps do this by learning patterns in who we left and right swipe on, the same way Netflix makes recommendations from the movies we’ve liked in the past. Netflix recommendations are utterly bad. Musk et al. warn us constantly about "AI" and its dangers, but so far AI doesn't seem to work very well. Translating from Italian to English with Google Translate results in complete gibberish; Amazon (the othe…
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#15To me the frightening thing is that people seem to be unable to differentiate between no data and the negative case. For example * No Fitbit data == "You're inactive * No Open source github commits == "you dont like code" * Few Facebook friends == "you dont have friends" * Few Instagram posts == "You dont do anything"
At one end of the spectrum, insurance companies, or dating apps, have essentially no data. So every person is charged equally, which I think is unfair (some might disagree).
To improve, companies collect data via a questionnaire. The obvious problem is people lie -- often unintentionally.
The next step is to use genuine data. And, there are certainly issues with that.
It's just not clear to me that the issues outweigh the problems with the alternative scenarios.
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#16Intersting thing with this is I have 4 different twitter accounts for all of my different personalities:
- political
- work related
- life(dog) related
- shit posting
I kind of want to see the different matches I’d get based on my tweet taxonomy.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Currently playing the same game with my health insurance, who suggest linking my watch health metrics to "boost my health score". (I'm currently bronze and I could be at Silver! Someone must have watched the gamification TED talk). Not wanting my insurer to have that data presumably to them means I'm unfit, rather than skeptical of what they're going to do with it
Just get a dog and tie it to their collar. I'm joking of course, I do not condone insurance fraud.
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#18Dating apps/sites that employ the strategy of "get as much data as possible and match intelligently" have failed to compete for users against Tinder, the dumbest, simplest dating app that hardly does any intelligent matching at all. This implies that it's not the sophistication of a dating app that matters, it's the simplicity and ability to attract a userbase that in turn attracts a larger userbase etc in a virtuous…
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#19> Already, some apps do this by learning patterns in who we left and right swipe on, the same way Netflix makes recommendations from the movies we’ve liked in the past. Netflix recommendations are utterly bad. Musk et al. warn us constantly about "AI" and its dangers, but so far AI doesn't seem to work very well. Translating from Italian to English with Google Translate results in complete gibberish; Amazon (the othe…
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#20This is so wrong. Your partner is someone that balances you, not a mirror of you. Sure, you need a lot of similar interest, but also differences to get a relationship work, and those I don't yet see in these algoritms, not even remotely.