Cory Doctorow: Persuasion, Adaptation, and the Arms Race for Your Attention
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Re: Cory Doctorow: Persuasion, Adaptation, and the Arms Race for Your Attention
#2Always interested in what Cory Doctorow has to say. While this particular blog post isn't about DRM, his work is benefiting everyone (except those who would rather enrich themselves at the expense of humanity). It's probably bigger than you think. I highly recommend reading up on what Cory has to say on DRM and the war on general purpose computing. It may change your mind.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/cory-doctorow-says-fight-agains...
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/cory-doctorow-rejoins-eff...
Also watch the various youtube videos of his talks, like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbYXBJOFgeI
Re: Cory Doctorow: Persuasion, Adaptation, and the Arms Race for Your Attention
#3A bit odd to open an article about an arms race for my attention and see an ad for a book (A whirlwind out-of-this-galaxy adventure! #1 New York Times best selling author...) in the menu that takes up the top half of the page, and then only the title of the article and no actual text before scrolling (mobile safari)... and then a donate now box also came up over 80% of the screen. Also a nice touch to have all the social media widgets connected so my attention can be weaponized while I read about my attention being weaponized.
Re: Cory Doctorow: Persuasion, Adaptation, and the Arms Race for Your Attention
#4A bit odd to open an article about an arms race for my attention and see an ad for a book (A whirlwind out-of-this-galaxy adventure! #1 New York Times best selling author...) in the menu that takes up the top half of the page, and then only the title of the article and no actual text before scrolling (mobile safari)... and then a donate now box also came up over 80% of the screen. Also a nice touch to have all the so…
Funny, I didn't even notice the adverts. Looking back I now see them. I guess my attention filtering is fairly well tuned.
I did notice the banner asking that I subscribe.
Re: Cory Doctorow: Persuasion, Adaptation, and the Arms Race for Your Attention
#5A bit odd to open an article about an arms race for my attention and see an ad for a book (A whirlwind out-of-this-galaxy adventure! #1 New York Times best selling author...) in the menu that takes up the top half of the page, and then only the title of the article and no actual text before scrolling (mobile safari)... and then a donate now box also came up over 80% of the screen. Also a nice touch to have all the so…
There's no better time than now (Meltdown/Spectre) to switch to whitelist only JS (NoScript works). The menu/ads completely fail to display but the text is just fine.
Re: Cory Doctorow: Persuasion, Adaptation, and the Arms Race for Your Attention
#6Always interested in what Cory Doctorow has to say. While this particular blog post isn't about DRM, his work is benefiting everyone (except those who would rather enrich themselves at the expense of humanity). It's probably bigger than you think. I highly recommend reading up on what Cory has to say on DRM and the war on general purpose computing. It may change your mind. http://www.zdnet.com/article/cory-doctorow-s…
Same here. I personally like the guy for correctly pointing my attention at things that are important, as opposed to vast majority of journalists, who just follow the mainstream subject du jour.
Re: Cory Doctorow: Persuasion, Adaptation, and the Arms Race for Your Attention
#7>"Not everyone has this reaction, of course: people in the fifth or sixth sigma of slot-machine susceptibility go out and[...]"
Every time a new one of these mental attacks gets invented, a new five-sigma cohort falls off the "normal life" wagon. How many times can this happen before expansive hordes of people who have had their priorities destroyed start a new social crisis?
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#8> "Not everyone has this reaction, of course: people in the fifth or sixth sigma of slot-machine susceptibility go out and[...]" Every time a new one of these mental attacks gets invented, a new five-sigma cohort falls off the "normal life" wagon. How many times can this happen before expansive hordes of people who have had their priorities destroyed start a new social crisis?
I wonder if that's really a problem or if it's the same group people getting manipulated over and over.
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#9Sadly the collateral damages in our attention habituation seems to be our empathy and social lives.
Re: Cory Doctorow: Persuasion, Adaptation, and the Arms Race for Your Attention
#10A bit odd to open an article about an arms race for my attention and see an ad for a book (A whirlwind out-of-this-galaxy adventure! #1 New York Times best selling author...) in the menu that takes up the top half of the page, and then only the title of the article and no actual text before scrolling (mobile safari)... and then a donate now box also came up over 80% of the screen. Also a nice touch to have all the so…
There's no better time than now (Meltdown/Spectre) to switch to whitelist only JS (NoScript works). The menu/ads completely fail to display but the text is just fine.
I've done the same thing, but I wonder how much I am really protecting myself. I need to whitelist sites that I use to get them to work (HN, for example), but that doesn't stop HN from attacking me.
I suppose it raises the bar, but how soon until I whitelist a site that attacks me?