It's the same thing entirely: people trusting images and signals from control apparatuses to override the signals from their own senses.
Some form of that has been going on throughout history. Basic socialization involves replacing a part of how you see the world, with a simulation of others' simulation of an imaginary "everyone" expects to see things.
If this sounds weird, that's because it is. And, not only is it difficult to think about, but once you manage to imagine it you may find it viscerally terrifying. So you don't. (It's why you don't remember early childhood.) Granted, none of that has ever happened at this... no, not "scale"! It's never happened at this resolution, i.e. ability to discern.
Machines make decisions billions of times a second along constantly evolving, networked rulesets; consumers are afforded to elect rulemakers once every few years in avoidance of mass tantrum, and otherwise are free to vote with wallets and feet for whichever evil they consider the lesser one. Which one can be said to be in control?
Ultimately, it's not terribly important if the cat dances or what shape the planet is. What matters is whether you will go kill when your phone gives you the "kill" command:https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-full-series
Two 60ish ladies are sitting in the cafe next to me, one isn't able to figure out where some thing on the phone had arrived from, the other one isn't able to explain to her friend that it came "but from the phone itself!"
Of course, from some slopmonger, data harvester, ad broker, spammer... but they spent their lives without having to learn about the shape of the earth; why would they want to know who makes the phone do things "on its own"?
Why would they want to know that the Free Pleasant Stimulus of the "cat and baby video" is not For Realsies Real? I'm not saying they don't actually need to understand that, but nobody ever tries to explain why would they want to.
Society is mighty and benevolent, one can go through life and even raise kids without ever learning about object permanence. So they do, and when in their sunset years when they ask "who stole the money", society is only happy to provide a culprit for that, too. Remember that very few of the phone scammers want to be there, either.
It's the same thing entirely: people trusting images and signals from control apparatuses to override the signals from their own senses.
Some form of that has been going on throughout history. Basic socialization involves replacing a part of how you see the world, with a simulation of others' simulation of an imaginary "everyone" expects to see things.
If this sounds weird, that's because it is. And, not only is it difficult to think about, but once you manage to imagine it you may find it viscerally terrifying. So you don't. (It's why you don't remember early childhood.) Granted, none of that has ever happened at this... no, not "scale"! It's never happened at this resolution, i.e. ability to discern.
Machines make decisions billions of times a second along constantly evolving, networked rulesets; consumers are afforded to elect rulemakers once every few years in avoidance of mass tantrum, and otherwise are free to vote with wallets and feet for whichever evil they consider the lesser one. Which one can be said to be in control?
Ultimately, it's not terribly important if the cat dances or what shape the planet is. What matters is whether you will go kill when your phone gives you the "kill" command: https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-full-series
Two 60ish ladies are sitting in the cafe next to me, one isn't able to figure out where some thing on the phone had arrived from, the other one isn't able to explain to her friend that it came "but from the phone itself!"
Of course, from some slopmonger, data harvester, ad broker, spammer... but they spent their lives without having to learn about the shape of the earth; why would they want to know who makes the phone do things "on its own"?
Why would they want to know that the Free Pleasant Stimulus of the "cat and baby video" is not For Realsies Real? I'm not saying they don't actually need to understand that, but nobody ever tries to explain why would they want to.
Society is mighty and benevolent, one can go through life and even raise kids without ever learning about object permanence. So they do, and when in their sunset years when they ask "who stole the money", society is only happy to provide a culprit for that, too. Remember that very few of the phone scammers want to be there, either.