@will_e_steele I think you are really onto something with the Signals and Commitments ideas. They map closely to problems I've been trying to name around productivity and memory in my own work with agents. Looking forward to hearing more.
@MPECSInc Yes, absolutely. I think there's a kind of Laffer curve for invasiveness. If they really did that in the screenshot, they would lose users and thus data. Slightly less obvious harvesting yields more data, as it doesn't trigger users to flee.