Karma Analytics: Who’s Keeping Score, and How?
We’ve all heard the idea that there’s some cosmic “karma record” tracking our good and bad deeds — ready to reward us or punish us when the time is right. I’m sure that record runs on modern technology. Think of it as a huge data system logging our moral highs and lows in real time. It is like Google Analytics for our moral life.
In regular analytics, we track events like clicks, pageviews, or purchases. For karma, we’d track important moral actions. But which ones?
For simplicity, let’s say we track 5 significant moral actions per person per day. Multiply that by roughly 8 billion people, and we get:
That’s about 463,000 events each second. This number sounds huge, but today’s massive data systems handle similar rates — just usually for things like video views, not moral decisions.
Client-side tracking is easier to imagine but can be rigged. Server-side is more reliable but puts free will under the microscope and demands giant infrastructure. My bet is that this system uses client side tracking.
