Comment by aleph_minus_one
1 year ago
> If you lived your entire life exclusively around "spies", would you be able to tell?
Yes: basically every large website is spying on you. :-)
1 year ago
> If you lived your entire life exclusively around "spies", would you be able to tell?
Yes: basically every large website is spying on you. :-)
Websites do it very closely. I hope they do something good with that information tax (it's very high).
There's a larger you though. A little bit blurrier, completely metaphisical. It is an old tradition (for example, Horoscope, but not only it).
That blurry you thing has the means to spy on you too. Not as close as a website that has your exact identity, but close enough.
One could see your public behavior and gauge what cultural clothes you decide to wear, and from that figure out lots of things about you (in a more blurry, metaphisical way). These ideas are very, very old.
For example, I was supposed to move from being a web developer in the 2000s (very known persona profile) to some kind of crypto-nerd, to some kind of AI-nerd. It's the lane that was assigned to me, the clothes I am supposed to wear given my life circumstances. I decided to make different arrangements for myself (still very much a 2000s web developer), and then noticed how people blindly follow this stuff. I can't help but imagine a lot more people do this (persona mobility), and know what's all about.