If you haven’t watched @SocialDilemma_ on Netflix, you should. It talks about all this, but with one - critical - additional layer.
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And the layer is this: not only is propaganda being pumped to us via hostile actors, it’s being delivered via a system PURPOSELY DESIGNED to make us addicted to consuming it.
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I’ll say it again: we’re being fed propaganda, and being manipulated into being addicted to consuming the propaganda, sharing the propaganda, + engaging with the propaganda. We’re being manipulated into sewing that propaganda into the fabric of our society + our personal lives.
If you’re wondering how in the hell ideas that are complete departures from reality and fact now have a grip on our country - and the world - this is why. 👆
Remember Watson?
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What about Deep Blue?
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Think of how long ago this was, and consider that AI power grows exponentially.
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If an IBM machine from 1997 could beat the world chess champion, why would we think an average person can somehow beat a giant underground bunker full of supercomputers - super computers learning from millions of points of data from billions of people, every second of every day?
And regarding the insanity we’ve been seeing in various parts of the country: don’t participate. Just...don't participate.
People who wish us harm know exactly how far it can go.
It can go this far:
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November is everything.
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Vote.
Volunteer.
Donate.
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