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Indeed, if it turns out social media platforms allow not only measurement but control over the parameters of the "flock" behaviour, it's only a matter of time b
by Oxidation 4y ago
Indeed, if it turns out social media platforms allow not only measurement but control over the parameters of the "flock" behaviour, it's only a matter of time before it's possible to engineer sheepdogs.
You can't control what you can't measure, and social media is a very effective measurement tool of crowd behaviour. Whether you can control what you can measure, well that's up to Cambridge Analytica 2.0 to figure out.
- kuramitropolis 4y agoI'd wager it's already happened. The general loss of definition since before the pandemic, the events of the past year in particular, especially the sudden burst of clarity around some of the sketchier economic affairs of these past few months, seem to suggest that something bigger's brewing already.
- ispo 4y agoYou are not being clear enough to make your post different than a conspiracy theory.