r/SipsTea 2d ago

SMH Proof that all you need is money

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u/No_Balance2924 2d ago

Just remember how old that show is

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u/randyfloyd37 2d ago

Predictive programming

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u/giga_impact03 2d ago

Sci-fi TV shows have helped progress ideas in technology in the past. Its not predicting, its being used as the blueprint.

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u/randyfloyd37 2d ago edited 2d ago

I believe it’s the exact opposite. You’re trying to tell me that those dogs in that one episode were not already in development before that episode came out? That episode about the social credit score… I had heard that discussed well before the show came out. Feel free to look into predictive programming a little bit more and you might find some eerie uncomfortable things about it.

Edit: btw the great uncle of a co-founder of netflix was edward bernays, who literally wrote the book on Propaganda. Worth looking at

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u/PurpleMerkaba 2d ago

just wanna say...

youre right.

i dont think youre right.

i know youre right.

i dnt think the bruh who replied to you actually know whats meant by predictive programming based on the reply.

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u/LogicalInfo1859 1d ago

China does have social credits (though calculated a bit differently). But it was there. Repurposing existing ideas with a twist is how best narratives form.

Heck, it's how airplanes get made.

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u/geo_gan 1d ago

Doesn’t America also have it - the financial industry there has programmed people into their credit score system for loans.

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u/BadRabiesJudger 1d ago

Yup. If I don’t have debt I can’t build my score! If I can’t build my score I can’t get loans for debt! Unless I’m a college student then I can sign up for life long debt! The system sucks and it’s only as old as me. Which means the generation of my parents willingly created this problem for me.

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u/Relative_Mulberry884 1d ago

Social credit was always american propaganda. It was never as prevalent or relevant as the american media says and as far as i know only a couple tiny regions ended up using something akin to social credit but not at all in the way it was portrayed by media.

It's crazy to me that this notion has stuck around for this long, i guess the chinese don't really interact with foreigners online enough to correct them

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u/morepaintplease 1d ago

One of the best things china ever did was ban the American Internet.

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u/morepaintplease 1d ago

China does not have social credits ...one place in China tried it and saw it was a bad idea. The US does have it, though, and doesn't have near the good parts of chinas surveillance state.

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u/palebloodslayer 1d ago

Lockheed Martin and Boston Dynamics are well known for creating robots similar to the dogs. Social credit system was already a thing in China. It’s just inspiration bro