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It is not AI. It is the chinese communist party. Otherwise might as well have a paper called “The Internet Threat ...” or “The pen and paper threat ...” The

It is not AI. It is the chinese communist party. Otherwise might as well have a paper called “The Internet Threat ...” or “The pen and paper threat ...” The America fought Soviet Union. But ok with a communist party in china, with their all in and everywhere in the society (and copy things on top of contributions) ... it might be too interwoven and too big to ... Good luck.

raverbashing 8y ago
Also the US antagonized the Soviet Union but ultimately it fell by itself. Remains to be seen what will happen in the Chinese case.
- luckylion 8y ago
  Yeah. The SU was much smaller than the US-led side (~300m vs ~700m), it's very different with China, so that will be interesting.
- scottlocklin 8y ago
  The Soviets dumped all their resources into war economy output. The Chinese, consumer goods for the world pay for their war machine, which is basically the strategy the US used to have.
intended 8y ago
But the Chinese party is effective. It may be abhorrent to the societal values of most of the people reading this comment, but its great to MANY people in China. But even that, is a red herring. Strongly controlled and moderated communication networks are currently less brittle than open societal systems. Even on a micro scale, on forums, you can see the ideas the Chinese apply being put to use out of sheer necessity. When you Add in state level actors, with the ability to crunch the numbers, then its entirely possible to create the impression of a consensus in human minds with the use of sock puppets/pseudo-human accounts. The holy grail of such research is discovering intent of speakers or groups of speakers. This will be used to stop hate speech as much as it will to kill dissidents. This is a right mess and any tool created to clean it up (other than human effort), is liable to create more problems.

raverbashing 8y ago

Also the US antagonized the Soviet Union but ultimately it fell by itself. Remains to be seen what will happen in the Chinese case.

luckylion 8y ago
Yeah. The SU was much smaller than the US-led side (~300m vs ~700m), it's very different with China, so that will be interesting.
scottlocklin 8y ago
The Soviets dumped all their resources into war economy output. The Chinese, consumer goods for the world pay for their war machine, which is basically the strategy the US used to have.

intended 8y ago

But the Chinese party is effective. It may be abhorrent to the societal values of most of the people reading this comment, but its great to MANY people in China. But even that, is a red herring. Strongly controlled and moderated communication networks are currently less brittle than open societal systems. Even on a micro scale, on forums, you can see the ideas the Chinese apply being put to use out of sheer necessity. When you Add in state level actors, with the ability to crunch the numbers, then its entirely possible to create the impression of a consensus in human minds with the use of sock puppets/pseudo-human accounts. The holy grail of such research is discovering intent of speakers or groups of speakers. This will be used to stop hate speech as much as it will to kill dissidents. This is a right mess and any tool created to clean it up (other than human effort), is liable to create more problems.