Let's say you're selling product X at price Y.
Let's say you're selling product X at price Y. There are three kinds of people you could reach with advertising: * People who have an unmet need for product X at price Y. * People whose need for product X at price Y is already met, but who can be manipulated into buying from you rather than someone else. * People who don't need product X at price Y, but can be manipulated into needing it. Advertising is only good for society to the extent it reaches the first group. Influencing the second and third groups can be profitable for you, but on a societal scale it's just a game-theoretic arms race that wastes resources, plasters our environment with ads, and makes people miserable with new needs. We should totally try to discourage it.
Posted by cousin_it on Nov 5, 2017, 6:02 PM
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I got tired of the price hikes of the ad free netflix and finally canceled.
>This is pathological.
1) No, but the tracking needed for targeted ads is also behind a consent wall.
The attention economy is real, your eyes have value that is surprisingly high, and buying out that attention so you can have a pure you-c...
> Users don’t care whether the code was written by AI or by hand That's true, but they care deeply about the consequences of that: > ab...
There's a part of the tech industry that uses what I would call dark influencer techniques.
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You can either have AI be honest or AI become a marketing tool.
Let's say you're selling product X at price Y.
Let's say you're selling product X at price Y. There are three kinds of people you could reach with advertising: * People who have an unmet need for product X at price Y. * People whose need for product X at price Y is already met, but who can be manipulated into buying from you rather than someone else. * People who don't need product X at price Y, but can be manipulated into needing it. Advertising is only good for society to the extent it reaches the first group. Influencing the second and third groups can be profitable for you, but on a societal scale it's just a game-theoretic arms race that wastes resources, plasters our environment with ads, and makes people miserable with new needs. We should totally try to discourage it.
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