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The last point, which also struck me while watching the movie, is how ubiquitous (or I guess completely absent) serendipity will become. The idea of machine do
by psbp 13y ago
The last point, which also struck me while watching the movie, is how ubiquitous (or I guess completely absent) serendipity will become.
The idea of machine domination being through a gun wielding robot is absurd when so much of an individual's thoughts and experiences can just easily be optimized towards a specific goal.
I noticed that what comes off as a simple joke in the movie, Theodore being cut off when explaining how unhappy he is when his mother selfishly reacts to his feelings, is something that Samantha uses throughout the movie to help Theodore cope with his feelings of abandonment. It really doesn't take much information to manipulate someone so innately.
- md224 13y agoEven now, people who use Facebook regularly have their exposure to information mediated through News Feed algorithms that seem fairly opaque. Of course, you can take manual actions to "shape" your feed, but mostly it's computers deciding who you'd probably like to hear from, and maybe even what you'd like to hear about. It's interesting how such a major part of people's infostreams are invisibly shaped by behavior-trained systems.