Comment You just do not get the nature of lynch mobs (Score 1) 291
And you won't solve the social media problem by opting out.
And you won't solve the social media problem by opting out.
WHEREAS: Only a tight group of wingnuts on either side have disproportionate power because elections are won at the margins, nobody cares about the 90% in the middle.
WHEREAS: Social media will be used to motivate those 10% who really matter, first to enrage them, then to engage them.
THEREFORE: If ALL the tech workers run away, then who owns the field?
As a data miner, I found the human side of this story as explained in Wired, January 2018 worth having a paper copy for, just so I can roll it up and use it to beat some sense into my politicians.
So long there exist those who can remind that world that it doesn't matter so much what some nation says , as it matters what that nation does , China will fail to convince folks that it has any goal other than putting ever-more power over others into the hands of its selfish leaders.
But the whole point of weaponized social media is that it makes you think you are reading what they are doing, you cannot separate the fake information that says that
China is ending pollution in its slave colonies in Afrika
from some whiny truth-pretender who says
China is poisoning millions of acres in Africa
Think of social media manipulation as analogous to CGI, two things have happened to our viewing of movies now that CGI rules the screen.
We are not as amazed by flashy space-opera fights between X-wings and Star destroyers
and
We now sometimes assume that an expensive flashy screen event is CGI when in fact it was real, and we really don't care about that distinction
* Self-driving cars are required to have three green flashing lights, front and both sides (LED green)
* Newly produced human driven cars are required to have purple flashing lights, same configuration (LED purple)
* By 2025, everyone will be driven nuts by the flashing lights, and we'll all figure out how to ride bikes while wearing pajamas on our way to the broom factories.
The correct context is probably passenger-miles per equivalent death (pedestrians hit by vehicles). But finding that data is waaaaay beyond the abilities of a 24x7 news cycle.
If Slashdot is so smart, why aren't we able to help with this problem?
I'd call the made-for-VR movie, "Do Androids evolve to become veterinarians specializing in sheep?"
Do neural nets dream of electric sheep? - the link should have been better presented, however.
I highlighted the best parts.
I then added that the Universal part of the equation is key-most-critical if you want to really push back on the divisiveness of the post-modernist scum who are running and ruining the public supported information channels (PBS, NPR, MPR). See Michael Shermer of Skeptic column in SciAm.
PS. I photoshopped (actually using Paint) the "are not free to have" to become "now free to have". If I were quoting this in an article I would have used something like "are not [Ed. now] free to have".
Scientists are starting to push back too. As are skeptics like Micheal Shermer.
I back Google on this one.
(No irony between my post and my sig.)
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