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To the nontechnical we’ve already built god. A fav anecdote of mine is somebody once asked their Lyft driver how their day is going. And the driver replies: I h
by Swizec 9y ago
To the nontechnical we’ve already built god. A fav anecdote of mine is somebody once asked their Lyft driver how their day is going. And the driver replies: I have been blessed by the algorithm. It brings me much rides.
If you have no mental models of how these things work, they may well be gods and the people who make them may well be high priests performing mysterious incantantions to bend the gods to their will.
Kinda scary.
- walrus01 9y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gods_Must_Be_Crazy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gods_Must_Be_Crazy Brought into a modern era where , in a world with $50 Android phones and cheap/free Facebook "free basics" walled garden internet, people who are only one generation removed from subsistence farming lifestyles are suddenly encountering meme warfare and predictive algorithms.
- Swizec 9y agoI love that movie! I watched it as a kid and to this day I remember two important facts: 1) Everyone recognizes a Coca Cola bottle 2) To defeat a hyena you must appear to be taller than the hyena
- anvandare 9y agoAnd this is how the Cult Mechanicus begins. :)