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A Boring Dystopia

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Cool, cool cool cool. Nothing dystopian about that at all.

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[โ€“] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Uhhh I think you completely missed what I was saying. I was explaining that collecting data is easy, but actually making use of that data is really hard, and gave a real world example of a trend that should be obvious being buried in a mountain of data because there's simply too much data to sift through

[โ€“] CovfefeKills@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I gave you an out you entirely missed the point no one is talking about arbitrary amounts of arbitrary data the concerns are about things we say online being used against us in the real world.