If This Is The Future, Call Me Marty McFly
Dystopia is the product roadmap.*
Our attitude towards democracy is fundamentally different from our attitude towards algorithms.
If we’re to have a future, it is essential to make sure that people’s opinions won't become so deeply machine-influenced as to be useless
People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real problem is that they’re too stupid and they’ve already taken over the world.%
The first major innovation in computers was a computer word processor called WordStar.
It’s tempting to believe that computers will be neutral and objective, but algorithms are nothing more than opinions embedded in mathematics.~
The state developed an ideology that dictated that computers would be good, but that in order to manage computers and control computers, they needed to control information.
They believed in the idea of
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We’re building this infrastructure of surveillance authoritarianism merely to get people to click on ads.^
It is important to recognize that the power of surveillance will be increased as computer-controlled systems become ever more sophisticated.
It is very hard to know when an algorithm will have made the final calculation when it always has more data available.
*https://twitter.com/monikabielskyte %https://www.washington.edu/news/2015/09/17/a-q-a-with-pedro-domingos-author-of-the-master-algorithm/ ~https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/08/opinion/sunday/criminal-justice-reforms-race-technology.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share ^https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_dystopia_just_to_make_people_click_on_ads?language=en