Sony was granted a patent to make a tv that will only stop showing a commercial once you stand up and say the brand name out loud.

I wonder how good it will be when all it can predict is dialogues of this variant.

I've already been stalked enough for it to trigger my PTSD in a loop, because of how memory gets stored in relation to active trauma. It doesn't work on me anymore. I just assume everyone that is a proponent of emotional stalking and emotional manipulation has their reality warped, way more than mine is. It isn't scary to me. It is weakness, laziness, stupidity and indicates a significant lack of rigorous thinking of the parties that employ such methodology.

Oh, but I work in the industry (analytics). I am an active proponent of behavior that is anti fucking your consumers over, however, and I have been repeatedly successful in reorienting businesses back to actually valuing their consumers - digging themselves out of ditches that abusive schemers abuse. Because no one wants to create something that destroys them. The industry is so filled with micromanagers realizing the bubble is popping, as less and less time is spent on ensuring data recorded is quality in multi-facets. These micromanagers, slick product hawkers literally don't understand that their requests are impossible. And some technical folks turn a blind eye to that. But it is all stupid. Focus on the problems people want solved. Just because for one instance, being happy and not being abused dominates the culture doesn't mean people are going to stop being consumers. Them being dead will prevent them from that, I will tell you that. These industries shoot themselves in the foot by encouraging chaos and conflict because it is easier to measure over a shorter period of time. But it isn't, it is literally just the easiest thing to train people to recognize. Loop, loop, loop.

The industries I support don't succumb to such toxic, lazy bullshit. Because it is obvious to everyone besides the idiots that these industries are going belly up, and soon. It isn't because of people like me though. It is because there are legitimately better avenues of creating revenue that are more sustainable and more profitable. Facebook is a cult of lazy people that don't understand the mathematics or the economics of what they have implemented and what they have succumbed to temptation of. Reddit is touch and go, depends highly on their leadership.

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