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> How is "you are the product" incorrect? I think the point is not that this statement is incorrect, but rather that it doesn’t accurately convey the severity
by tr352 6y ago
> How is "you are the product" incorrect?
I think the point is not that this statement is incorrect, but rather that it doesn’t accurately convey the severity of the situation. More accurate would be: “manipulation of their audience is their product”.
- 082349872349872 6y agoOne of the nice touches in "Gravy Planet" (1952) are the throwaway sentences that show, via revealed preferences, how the ad-exec protagonist is also a product of the system he helped create. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24576623 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24576623 ==== Manipulation of the audience in pre-TV days, ca. fourth century BC: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0060:book=2:chapter=1&highlight=judgements http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:19... > "The emotions are all those affections which cause men to change their opinion in regard to their judgements" Remember the Maine!
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