The weirdness is in part an information asymmetry that is exploited on a scale never before seen in human history.
There are wealthy corporate plunderers building invasive systems of disinformation.
There are people who believe everything they read and feed the panic-for-profit system. There certainly are people who understand the algorithms and implementations. There are people who fear how these algorithms and implementations will be used by the enormous network of for-profit (and for-power) influencing systems.
> (from the article) these computational systems that have, you know, a million times or a billion times more knowledge than I have and are a billion times faster. It makes me feel extremely inferior. And I don't want to say deserving of being eclipsed, but it almost feels that way, as if we, all we humans, unbeknownst to us, are soon going to be eclipsed, and rightly so [...]
I don't know if humans will be eclipsed, but humanity and civilisation need some strong and dedicated backers at this point.
The weirdness is in part an information asymmetry that is exploited on a scale never before seen in human history.
There are wealthy corporate plunderers building invasive systems of disinformation.
There are people who believe everything they read and feed the panic-for-profit system. There certainly are people who understand the algorithms and implementations. There are people who fear how these algorithms and implementations will be used by the enormous network of for-profit (and for-power) influencing systems.
> (from the article) these computational systems that have, you know, a million times or a billion times more knowledge than I have and are a billion times faster. It makes me feel extremely inferior. And I don't want to say deserving of being eclipsed, but it almost feels that way, as if we, all we humans, unbeknownst to us, are soon going to be eclipsed, and rightly so [...]
I don't know if humans will be eclipsed, but humanity and civilisation need some strong and dedicated backers at this point.