Process
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Highlights
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The Shitty Tech Adoption Curve describes the process by which oppressive technology is normalized and distributed through all levels of society. The more privilege someone has, the harder it is to coerce them to use dehumanizing tech, so it starts with marginalized people.
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Asylum seekers, prisoners and overseas sweatshop workers get the first version. Its roughest edges are sanded off against their tenderest places, and once it’s been normalized a little, we inflict it on students, mental patients, and blue collar workers.
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Remember Goodhart’s Law: “Any measure becomes a target, and then ceases to be a useful measure.”
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Microsoft incentivizes companies to turn on an industry-wide comparison “feature” that sends all your employee data to Microsoft and then gives you a chart telling you how your employees fare against their counterparts elsewhere. You get a chart. Microsoft gets fine-grained data on your company’s operations – data it can sell, or mine, or you know, just lose control over and leak all over the internet. That’s some unprecedented Shitty Tech Adoption Curve accelerationism right there.