New Website To Make Our Decisions For Us

I have been playing around with a new site called Hunch.com

As its name almost suggests its particularly American, and the premise is that you choose your answers from a multitude of mutiple choice questions, thus building up a profile of yourself and your likes and dislikes. It sounds a lot like Internet Advertising profiling to me, and I’m yet to be convinced. One thing which would be intersting, is, how would it interact with an impulsive person?

Or someone a little off the wall, like say Adin for example (had to plug you Adin)

I think what I’m trying to say here, is do we need computers making our bad decisions for us, or are we doing a good enough job as it is?

The scary thing for me would be the reliance on such automated decision making could one day lead to our inability to think, instead programming us into being one trick ponies, ie point and click multiple choise questionaire answerers.

Out with reason and logic, and in with idiocracy.

Personally I like to make my own mistakes.

Head on over to hunch.com and have a look for yourself.

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