Nguyen's case is based on comparing the damage done by pervasive social scoring systems to the innocence of private pursuits. But we have pervasive social scoring systems precisely because passionate private pursuits so often get out of hand. This was Hobbes and Bentham's point. It would be nice to think that we have moved beyond their world, in which self-serving professors, bishops and dukes got to call the shots. But we haven't. From [LRB; <a href="

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