- once private information is leaked, it can never be undone
- being treated differently by some party because that party had knowledge of private information about you is difficult to prove
The ultimate solution is to legally require that important services cannot depend on private information.
An example would be: define a set of properties health insurance cost is allowed to depend on, and then have health insurance providers publish their formula for the premium (that can only depend on that set of properties).
The western economic system cannot deal with lockdowns, and more generally, any kind of stop-the-world scenarios.
What will be most important now is how the west will be able to deal with this crisis in comparison to China.
If the Chinese system is able to deal with the crisis more effectively in economic terms, this may put the western system as a whole in jeopardy, in particular values like freedom and privacy.
I feel uncomfortable at the ubiquitous, silent assumption that what is marketed as AI is a computer implementation of a brain.
I see how the term neuronal network reinforces this believe, but we (especially the researchers among us) should allow for the possibility that we are missing something.
I've followed Bitcoin for a while. What seemed to happens there was the deliberate manipulation of the price using all means available (ads, etc.) The result was a few winning big.
I have no reason to believe the same doesn't happen on the real stock market.
The German voter is against coal (the young climate concious), against nuclear (the old green party supporters), against wind (everyone when it appears in their backyard), and the government killed solar in 2015 which resulted in approximately 80000 lost jobs.
What the German voter doesn't want is to consume less and/or save energy.