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tags: china trustwothiness social engineering communism
date: 10-31-2016 05:42 gmt
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China 'social credit': Beijing sets up huge system So long as it purports to measure just one social variable -- 'trustworthiness' -- it might be a good idea. Many commerce websites (.. ebay ..) have these sort of rating systems already, and they are useful. When humans live in smaller communities something like this is in the shared consciousness. Peering into everyone's purchasing habits and hobbies, however, seems like it will be grossly myopic and, as the article says, Orwellian. Likely they will train a deep-belief network on past data of weakly and communist party defined success, with all purchasing and social media as the input data, and use that in the proprietary algorithm for giving people their scalars to optimize. This would be the ultimate party control tool -- a great new handle for controlling people's minds, even 'better' than capitalism. Surprising that the article only hints at this, and that the Chinese themselves seem rather clueless that it's a power play. In this sense, it's a very clever play to link it to reproduction. Other comments: These sorts of systems may be necessary in highly populated countries, where freedom and individuality are less valued and social cohesion is requisite. |