Showing posts with label Score. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Score. Show all posts
December 15, 2023
October 23, 2016
Your Score Is Your Life
Absolutely fascinating article in the Washington Post.
China is working on a plan to use big data to score people on their social behavior.
Every interaction you make in life either increments or decrements your social score.
You social score determines how trustworthy you are.
The social score would vacuum up data from the "courts, police, banking, tax, and employment records."
People in service professions like teacher, doctors, and business could be scored for their professionalism.
Doing positive social actions like caring for the elderly earn you added points and doing negative social actions like DUI or running a red light subtracts points from your score.
As the score includes more and more data feeds over time, you could eventually be scored for doing your homework, chores in the home, how you treat your wife and children, the community service you do, how hard you perform at work, how you treat people socially and on dates, whether you are fair in your business dealings and treat others well, whether you do your religious duties, and so on.
People can get rated for just about everything they do.
And these rating get aggregated into your social score.
The score is immediately available to everyone and so they know how good or bad you are on the scale of 1 to a 1,000.
If you think people are stressed out now, can you imagine having to worry about everything you do and how you will be rated for it and how it can affect your score and your future.
If you have a bad score, say goodbye to opportunities for education, employment, loans, friends, and marriage prospects.
Imagine people held hostage by others threatening to give you a bad score because they don't like you, are racist, or for blackmail.
What about society abusing this power to get you to not only follow positive social norms, but to enforce on you certain political leanings, religious followings, or policy endorsements.
Social scores could end up meaning the ultimate in social control.
Personal scores can manipulate your behavior by being rewarding or punitive and rehabilitative to whatever end the scoring authorities dictate.
Moreover, hackers or the people who control the big data machinery could destroy your life in a matter of milliseconds.
So this is what it comes down to: You are your score!
Play along and do what you are told to do...you are the Borg and you will follow.
Conform or you are dead by number!
Transparency is everywhere.
Pluses and minuses every day.
What is my score today?
Today, I am desirable and successful, and tomorrow, I am disregarded and a loser.
Please don't kill my score.
Please don't destroy me.
Please, I will be socially good.
Please, I will not resist. ;-)
(Source Graphic: Andy Blumenthal)
January 9, 2015
Soccer Soda On Metro
Watch what happens when people leave their trash on the Metro (Washington, DC).
In this case, it's a bottle and this one guy in jeans can't seem to get rid of it.
It's sort of hilarious.
First, the bottle is dumped by an uncaring passenger, it rolls around for awhile, and ends up sitting in the middle of the train car.
The train stops at the station and the people coming aboard step around and over the water bottle.
This guy in the center is irked by this bottle and just sort of blatantly kicks it at a women in winter boots standing by the doors.
But it eventually rolls back and hits him in the foot.
He's talking away (blah blah) on his cell, yet maneuvers the bottle ever so discretely to roll it backwards to someone else
But it ends up right back at him twice more.
Next stop, he runs off the train (and away from this bottle), but the person behind him kicks it after him and towards the doors.
Then this one lady with the orange bag and red purse gets up from her seat, and gives it a big kick right out the door.
She does this while the other people are boarding...oops watch out for the flying bottle.
Garbage left on the Metro...Goal! Score! ;-)
(Source Video: Andy Blumenthal)
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