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by cratermoon 1301 days ago
If the current attention economy was merely a linear, or even quadratic, step from TV, that would be one thing. We are seeing, however, an exponential increase in the scale, scope, and methods of persuasion. In the same way computers made mathematical calculation not just faster, but completely different, so too persuasive computing makes risks to society completely different.