One of the dumbest things I’ve ever published

In the essay, I argued that Apple’s then-nascent philosophical stance on the supremacy of user privacy was going to slow down its product development while competitors fully embraced deep data mining techniques to build better user experiences. Thus: (1) The building of tools to aggregate private information in order to ostensibly improve user experience has in fact, at scale, caused strange and negative things to happen. As it turns out, a bit of mystery, even when dealing with advanced artificial intelligence, appears to be way more valuable for user experience than a full profile of the private information inside someone’s mind and life.

Source: dcurt.is