There's a lot of criticism from people who definitely understand this, and a lot of people hemming and hawing about how "it's different because it's emotional manipulation" as if most other A/B Testing isn't.
They see the inconsistency, but they don't know how to react; they want to rationalize it.
Maybe it's an issue of politics as the mind killer?
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