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Are we the baddies?

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692 points AndrewSwift | 4 comments | 06 Jul 25 05:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.322s | source
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bigyabai ◴[06 Jul 25 06:11 UTC] No.44478250[source]▶
> It’s not okay. Advertising is not okay. Price discrimination is not okay. Using big data, machine learning, and psychology to manipulate others at scale is not okay.

Stop participating. Hinge is towards the top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, you'll do just fine without it.

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1. palmfacehn ◴[06 Jul 25 06:39 UTC] No.44478377[source]▶
Collectivists generally start from premises which discount or even dismiss individual agency.
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2. poorlyknit ◴[06 Jul 25 10:00 UTC] No.44479314[source]▶
This is a cheap overgeneralization.
3. salawat ◴[06 Jul 25 15:19 UTC] No.44481480[source]▶
And yet individualists reach to secure those network effects while at the same time decrying they don't exist or will never work, anything to deny the advantage of a network to competing agents.
4. bigyabai ◴[06 Jul 25 17:07 UTC] No.44482366[source]▶
Libertarians and revolutionaries often start from premises that overestimate their worth relative to millions of other ordinary people.

Spend for two weeks in the woods, and you'll find out who brings you food when you're hungry (spoilers: nobody).