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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 25-May-2025 01:22:49 JST Evan Prodromou

   Digital advertising is the paperclip maximizer of our timeline.

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paperclip_maximizer

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     Don Marti (dmarti@federate.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-May-2025 04:35:36 JST Don Marti

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     @evan it's not that simple -- surveillance advertising is also part of a political movement that goes back to direct mail ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2022/08/04/conservatives-pioneered-direct-mail-stoke-discontent-it-has-worked/ )

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 25-May-2025 04:36:09 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Don Marti

     @dmarti OK, but my point was that most of our artificial intelligence resources have gone into arbitrage on digital advertising. It's the one problem that everyone works on.