1. Is our freedom threatened when our choices can be forecasted?
2. Can we reclaim unpredictability in a data-driven age?
3. What ethical guardrails should we demand around social physics — Alonsoaceves
That confusion is the real threat, not the supposed predictability of human behavior. — Joshs
Both are valid concerns, but I'm more inclined to focus on how our predictability is being exploited. I'm not saying social physics isn't useful, but I'd prefer to see applications that go beyond profiting from our behavior. — Alonsoaceves
Both are valid concerns, but I'm more inclined to focus on how our predictability is being exploited. I'm not saying social physics isn't useful, but I'd prefer to see applications that go beyond profiting from our behavior. — Alonsoaceves
1. Is our freedom threatened when our choices can be forecasted? — Alonsoaceves
2. Can we reclaim unpredictability in a data-driven age? — Alonsoaceves
3. What ethical guardrails should we demand around social physics? — Alonsoaceves
You mean, this invented concept you seemed to have pulled out of nowhere (nowhere pleasant, shall I self-censor)? — Outlander
He argued that, in a crowd, the individual loses his personal identity and becomes a single collective psyche. We later see these ideas developed by Freud and Jung. — Alonsoaceves
if our collective patterns are so predictable, do we really have freedom? — Alonsoaceves
There is no platonic, perfectly ratoinal, self-interested individual that is free to decide merely according to his/her own will.
If you live in a society that celebrates wisdom and community, you will have different values. — IntrospectionImplosion
This goes along with Saint Augustine's point that the soul being unable to turn away from the beatific vision in Heaven is not a limit on freedom for the same reason that an inability to trip and fall is not a limit on our freedom to walk, or an inability to crash one's ship is not a limit on our ability to pilot. — Count Timothy von Icarus
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