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One of the more unique insights here: "Its downside is that it’s a static world. It doesn’t have any vision of the future because the way it works is by consta
by hliyan 8y ago
One of the more unique insights here:
"Its downside is that it’s a static world. It doesn’t have any vision of the future because the way it works is by constantly monitoring what you did yesterday and the day before, and the day before that. And monitoring what I did yesterday and the day before and the day before that and doing the same to billions of other people. And then looking at patterns and then saying: “If you liked that, you’ll like this”."
"They’re constantly playing back to you the ghosts of your own behaviour. We live in a modern ghost story. We are haunted by our past behaviour played back to us through the machines in its comparison to millions of other people’s behaviour. We are guided and nudged and shaped by that."
- PavlovsCat 8y agothat made me think of one of the more unique 4k demos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcMxdFo7RAc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcMxdFo7RAc (can't call this an intro, it's more of a demo than many demos)
- l33tbro 8y agoThe obvious counterpoint is that much of civilization has been stasis. Also, the sum total of years in the post-surveillence world we now live in may be too small a sample-duration to conclude that it isn't subject to the same fluctuations of disruption that have occured throughout history. Tldr: history teaches us that it's only a matter of time before shit goes bananas.