Social sharing of behavioral data abolishes individual privacy in favor of group truth

Evidence

Because we are born to imitate one another, Pentland argues, the whole species is attuned to social pressure as an efficient means of behavioral modification. This model of human learning is a throwback to bees and apes but also a forward pass to the machine hive. Machines do not learn by empathy; learning is automatically updated in a lockstep progression of collective intelligence. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1393

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s foundational interest in how the digital economy encodes collective behavior — parallels the ‘superorganism’/ant-colony metaphors used across Surveillance Capitalism. — connects to: Facebook users’ personality traits can be predicted from public data without consent. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 854; Facebook’s behavior modification operates covertly at scale with no social or legal controls — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 955; Undermining anonymity reliably increases prosocial behavior across experiments — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 86 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Undermining anonymity reliably increases prosocial behavior across experiments #corroborates (0.85) — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 86