A more cynical version. This will go nowhere after the Conservative party in the UK receives a number of large political donations from business leaders who do not work for Apple and Google, but do play golf with them.
The UK wants to show it has teeth post Brexit, but will find out shortly it can't tackle FAANG without broad political support from other countries.
Agree with point about the torries, but UK remains a lucrative market on its own. They aren’t as powerful outside the block as within it, but no global company wants to leave the UK market.
This is what they said about GDPR, and yet here we are. The UK may not have the heavyweight political importance that the EU has, but it's a key market; we can only hope things change because as they stand it's only going to get worse and worse.
Do you want to go through life on a whim, at the mercy of your subconscious self, with no real insight into why you do the things you do, think the things you think, like the things you like? It's not psychopathic to want to tease out what you are, what you want, and once you do that, how to play the game of life such that you build your world to match what makes you happy?
This can be at a macro/life level, but it can also be at a much smaller scale. There was an example in the article on it, but to add another one that I think is similar: student submits an essay to the teacher, it's a good essay with better grammar, fact checking, etc than their friend's essay. Their friend's essay gets a higher score. Upon reflection, the friend's essay, while being lower quality, plays to the obvious preferences/biases the teacher has displayed throughout the term. For your next essay, you both do the high quality work, but you work in some aspects of what you now know the teacher wants to hear.
Is it manipulative or dishonest to do the latter? Some might think so. Other might think you are hacking the system to your advantage and hurting no one in the process.
Just read the description as well. "Self-authoring" seems to mean simply having an agenda that informs your behaviour. This could be interpreted as manipulative, but not psychopathic. Psychopathy requires a cluster of other traits such as deficient emotional responses and lack of empathy or control.
I think it does its job perfectly; gives them candidates who are willing to put up with 10 hour study sessions for weeks OR people who are naturally brilliant (and don't break under pressure while being watched). It filters out a lot of insanely good candidates by doing so, but who cares when you have 100,000+ job applications?
