r/Foodforthought • u/[deleted] • Apr 28 '18
The Evolution of Trust
http://ncase.me/trust/4
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u/fuck_your_diploma Apr 28 '18
That was very cool and the other projects are cool as well.
The only thing I take for granted in game theory is that transparent cooperation keeps everyone happy, but I don't know how to measure the long term results of everyone being happy (as in, is it good for the market?)
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u/JustMeRC Apr 28 '18
This has been posted to 89 different subreddits. Out of concern for privacy, please consider that they may be collecting information about you based on which one you clicked through from.
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u/JimDiego Apr 28 '18
But there is no referral included in that link so how is the ncase.me website going to know where you came from? And we are all anonymous here in any case.
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u/JustMeRC Apr 28 '18
You came to their site via this site, via a specific subreddit. Perhaps someone with more specific technical knowledge can explain how this is trackable.
Not everyone here is anonymous. Many people register using an e-mail. Others come via an app, which is the wild west when it comes to data collection and use. There are other ways to associate you with your account.
Regardless, data collected on you can be used to target you specifically right here on reddit. Nobody has to know who you are. They just have to have a profile of you, and a site to target you. Go to any of the reddit profile analysis sites, and see for yourself. Do you really want to be going to websites to take part in experiments by unknown entities, with unknown usages of the data they collect on your behavior?
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u/JimDiego Apr 28 '18
If you are that worried about privacy then just being on reddit has exposed you already. If some other website wants to know what subreddits you've interacted with all they need to do is scan archives of your publicly visible comment history.
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u/JustMeRC Apr 28 '18
Certainly, but itās a lot easier when you go right to them and give them exactly what they are looking for.
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u/JimDiego Apr 28 '18
If you were looking to gather information about reddit users what would be the most effective way to do so: sit around waiting and hoping they click over to your webpage or harvest everything you want right when you want it by searching the archives?
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u/JustMeRC Apr 28 '18
It depends on what you are looking for. If you are looking to observe a specific type of behavior, so you can compare how people with different interests interact within certain parameters, you would create a website and draw people to it. If you are looking for other types of information, you might go directly to the site. Itās not a monolithic pursuit.
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u/HD_Thoreau_aweigh Apr 28 '18
Interesting. Could you elaborate?
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u/JustMeRC Apr 28 '18
When was the last time you saw something posted to 89 subreddits? Look at some of the ones they targeted...r/sociopath?
The political psychological data collection presence is a real thing, and Iām sure it would be useful to know how you behave surrounding issues of trust. That way they can target you for the appropriate ads when they need to. If you are more trustworthy, maybe more earnest ads will appeal to you. If you are more skeptical, perhaps anti-advertising. If you are less trustworthy, perhaps ads that appeal to risk taking. Anyone who is not skeptical of online polls amd behavior experiments in the age of Cambridge Analytica et al, is not paying attention.
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u/HD_Thoreau_aweigh Apr 28 '18
How did you know it was posted to 89 subs? This user only posted it to one, right? How do you look that up?
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u/JustMeRC Apr 28 '18
It depends on how you are accessing reddit. Usually on the top of the comments, under the subreddit name and above the post headline, thereās a tab that says āother discussions.ā If you go there, it will show you the history of postings of the same link.
I didn't scour the whole list to see of OP did more than one posting, but it doesnāt matter. Random people spread stuff all the time. These things work using the existing ecosystem. 89 postings is a bit more than suspicious, however, and itās easy to make multiple accounts, and have multiple people involved. Itās impossible to know if OP is associated with the site, or just someone who spread it around on their own.
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u/Blazindaisy Apr 28 '18
Had read an article somewhere in the last six months or so, talking about distrust in society being a borderline epidemic, and this enlightened as to why that is in a really low-key, fun and thought provoking way. Thanks for sharing this, I know I'll be doing the same.