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   "text": "The availability of big data and algorithmic analytics increasingly limits individual choice, free will and the diversity of human experiences and actions, because the more analytics are available the less people make decisions that contradict them.",
   "abstract": "Individual choice, free will, and diversity of human experiences and actions are increasingly limited through the availability of big data and algorithmic data analytics. For example, the more DNA analytics are available, the less people with make decisions that contradict the analytics.",
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   "text": "An algorithmic future in which most human decisions are predicted or performed by algorithms threatens human individuality, and the resulting loss of diversity of human experience and of unpredictability threatens the diversity of nodes in decentralized systems.",
   "abstract": "An algorithmic future where most of humans' decisions are predicted and or performed by algorithms creates a threat for human individuality. The lack of diversity of human experiences and lacking unpredictability create a threat to diversity of nodes in decentralized systems.",
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