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ComputerGurutoday at 2:28 AM1 replyview on HN

It’s very much an embodiment of the law that says to monitor a system is to interfere with it; it would be very hard to say they “predicted” general suicide attempts vs they set up a scenario that allowed them to nudge people into such actions given everything.


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TZubiritoday at 3:04 AM

That would be the observer effect

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect_(physics)

and a more specific form from psychology

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect