[komali2]

> When one gets to be a certain age one begins to become attuned to this tendency of others' emotions to manipulate you

This is incredibly optimistic, which I love, but my own experience with my utterly deranged elder family, made insane by TV, contradicts this. Every day they're furious about some new things fox news has decided it's time to be angry about: white people being replaced (thanks for introducing them to that, tucker!), "stolen" elections, Mexicans, Muslims, the gays, teaching kids about slavery, the trans, you name it.

I know nobody else in my life more emotionally manipulated on a day to day basis than them. I imagine I can't be alone in watching this happen to my family.

[jasondigitized]

What if this technology could be applied so you can’t be manipulated? If we are already seeing people use this to simulate and train sales people to deal with tough prospects we can squint our eyes a bit and see this being used to help people identify logical fallacies and con men.

[mrbungie]

That's just being hopeful/optimistic. There are more incentives to use it for manipulation than to protect from manipulation.

That happens with a lot of tech. Social networks are used to con people more than to educate people about con men.