Love this framing. The part about systems collapsing contextual behavior into global judgements really captures why so many ppl feel uncomfortable with digital profiling but cant quite articulate it. When I switched careers last year, I experiencced this firsthand with linkedin constantly surfacing my old profession to new contacts. What this piece nails is that the issue isn't just privacy but epistemic violence, treating fluid human reality as if its a fixed dataset that can be parsed the same way everywhere.
Exactly. Once context gets collapsed into a global judgment layer, the system stops observing and starts deciding who you are allowed to be.
It is the epistemic flattening that is the the deeper failure mode here. Fluid, situational selves get frozen into durable signals that travel far beyond the moment that produced them.
This is very important concept for system designers. Thanks for taking time to write this.
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Love this framing. The part about systems collapsing contextual behavior into global judgements really captures why so many ppl feel uncomfortable with digital profiling but cant quite articulate it. When I switched careers last year, I experiencced this firsthand with linkedin constantly surfacing my old profession to new contacts. What this piece nails is that the issue isn't just privacy but epistemic violence, treating fluid human reality as if its a fixed dataset that can be parsed the same way everywhere.
Exactly. Once context gets collapsed into a global judgment layer, the system stops observing and starts deciding who you are allowed to be.
It is the epistemic flattening that is the the deeper failure mode here. Fluid, situational selves get frozen into durable signals that travel far beyond the moment that produced them.