It's chilling but it will be a little while before we end up there. The engineers (and friends) who built these systems are wildly successful, and as often hap

It's chilling but it will be a little while before we end up there. The engineers (and friends) who built these systems are wildly successful, and as often happens in these cases, they now feel guilty about that success, especially when they're surrounded by so much human suffering (in a place like SF), which pushes them in a progressive direction. But now they've discovered that the systems they built had unintended consequences and may have even led to the very success of the political ideologies they despise. The cognitive dissonance working at a place like Twitter must be palpable. Trump probably drives more revenue to the company than any other person, and yet probably 90+% of the employees who work there despise the man and everything he stands for. So you can see why so many people are on-board with trying to do something about it. But the same poorly-thought-out, gung-ho attitude which led to algorithms no one understands anymore, will backfire when they try to "correct" them. Social engineering is a dangerous game. This country is a time bomb just waiting to go off and when Silicon Valley finally pulls the plug on Trump there's no telling where it will end. (though I do think things have calmed down a little in the last couple years... we'll see where they end up after the midterms...)