A Quiet Little Corner
Where algorithms sleep
Just a few thoughts.
If you have ever picked out a gift for someone you know based on things they like, or do, because you “know” them, then you have done the same thing to them that algorithms do to you.
The internet, based on your search history, and what you buy and what you watch, and what you read, “knows” you, and can offer things for you to buy or watch do that will appeal to you.
And, honestly, I don’t see the difference.
We have allowed ourselves to be reduced to a series of likes, and then fed a steady diet of those likes and now we are indistinguishable from one another.
Tiny, semi-conscious, marginally aware, and yet totally convinced that we are not machines, or cogs or gears.
It’s like someone said, “Let’s give it a brain to handle basic physiological processes, allow it some leeway to create the illusion that it has choices, and then just turn it loose and see what happens.”
It, us are de-evolving, drifting back, not to a past of raw and wild existence, but to a future where we are so predictable that there will be no need to control us, because we will have finally reached the point where everyone told us we should be all along, self-controlled.
I'm waiting for civilization to fall once this so called "AI Bubble" pops. It seems like Musk is hastening that along with his latest Space X IPO. Once the stock market crashes hard this time, there will be a lot of tears on social media once again.