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My theory is that twitter is sentient, as in the human-algorithm system that makes it up can be considered a sentient entity, and for example it convinced a sus
by version_five 3y ago
My theory is that twitter is sentient, as in the human-algorithm system that makes it up can be considered a sentient entity, and for example it convinced a susceptible billionaire to buy it so it could better achieve it's ends. People worry about what we recently started calling AI (RL on top of autocomplete) which is not sentient and has no desires. That's silly. Twitter (and maybe others but it's more latent) is a full on dynamical system comprising millions of human brains orchestrated together algorithmically, and possesses sentience and goals, just as any one person does. Plus, though human agents, a means or acting on it's wishes. This is something to be extremely afraid of.
- theamk 3y agoNot just Twitter, all big corporations Charles Stross has a great essay about this, "Invaders From Mars" http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/12/invaders-from-mars.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/12/invaders...