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by swombat 4776 days ago
Making choices out of a selection determined by someone else is not freedom. They have this freedom even in places like North Korea...
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Choices don't seem be to constrained. Rather, there is more information about the likely outcome of making many of the most likely choices. Seems like a huge win to me. I can still be ignored or turned off. It's still possible to just walk out and go elsewhere.
It's worth considering this dystopia in parallel with this the oft-quoted saying that "In the future, there will be two kinds of people: those who tell computers what to do, and those who are told what to do by computers".

Then throw in this: http://www.economist.com/news/business/21578360-brain-work-m...

Perhaps the first group will dwindle faster than we think.

We're all told what to do by computers anyway, it's just that they happen to be 3lbs of squishy biomatter inside our skulls.