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We Are All Algorithms Now - Is that what's really destroying the legitimacy of our democracy?
Iβve never felt this way about an election before. For my entire adult life, campaigns could be exhilarating, tedious, crowded with incident or laden with foreboding, but you always felt that, at some point, there would be a resolution. The votes would be counted; the exit polls parsed; a decision made; and both sides would respect it. The one time that didnβt happen β in 2000 β I felt for the first time an inkling of what I feel in every part of my psyche now: a sense that the system itself was buckling.
ππΌ ..(..)...
And the reason this dystopian scenario is so credible is not just the fault of these political actors. Itβs ours too β thanks to the impact of social media. I think weβve under-estimated just how deep the psychological damage has been in the Trump era β rewiring the minds of everyone, including your faithful correspondent, in ways that make democratic discourse harder and harder and harder to model. The new Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma, is, for that reason, a true must-watch. It doesnβt say anything shockingly new, but it persuasively weaves together a whole bunch of points to reveal just how deeply and thoroughly fucked we are. Seriously, take a look.
ππΌ ..(..)..
For #Facebook and #Google and #Instagram and #Twitter, the business goal quickly became maximizing and monetizing human attention via #addictive #dopamine hits. Attention, they meticulously found, is correlated with emotional intensity, outrage, shock and provocation. Give artificial intelligence this simple knowledge about what distracts and compels humans, let the algorithms do their work, and the profits snowball. The cumulative effect β and itβs always in the same incendiary direction β is mass detachment from reality, and immersion in tribal fever.
π ππΌ https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/we-are-all-algorithms-now
πππΌ "Dopamine": Miniseries about the addiction mechanisms of Tinder, Facebook and Co. ππΌ
"They'll do anything to make you an addict," they say about #Tinder, #Facebook, #CandyCrush, #Instagram, #YouTube, #Snapchat, #Uber and #Twitter in the miniseries of #Arte. Eight episodes explain in detail which mechanisms are triggered in our brain to keep us engaged
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#surveillance #capitalism #SocialDilemma #dystopian #democracy #thinkabout #why
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Iβve never felt this way about an election before. For my entire adult life, campaigns could be exhilarating, tedious, crowded with incident or laden with foreboding, but you always felt that, at some point, there would be a resolution. The votes would be counted; the exit polls parsed; a decision made; and both sides would respect it. The one time that didnβt happen β in 2000 β I felt for the first time an inkling of what I feel in every part of my psyche now: a sense that the system itself was buckling.
ππΌ ..(..)...
And the reason this dystopian scenario is so credible is not just the fault of these political actors. Itβs ours too β thanks to the impact of social media. I think weβve under-estimated just how deep the psychological damage has been in the Trump era β rewiring the minds of everyone, including your faithful correspondent, in ways that make democratic discourse harder and harder and harder to model. The new Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma, is, for that reason, a true must-watch. It doesnβt say anything shockingly new, but it persuasively weaves together a whole bunch of points to reveal just how deeply and thoroughly fucked we are. Seriously, take a look.
ππΌ ..(..)..
For #Facebook and #Google and #Instagram and #Twitter, the business goal quickly became maximizing and monetizing human attention via #addictive #dopamine hits. Attention, they meticulously found, is correlated with emotional intensity, outrage, shock and provocation. Give artificial intelligence this simple knowledge about what distracts and compels humans, let the algorithms do their work, and the profits snowball. The cumulative effect β and itβs always in the same incendiary direction β is mass detachment from reality, and immersion in tribal fever.
π ππΌ https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/we-are-all-algorithms-now
πππΌ "Dopamine": Miniseries about the addiction mechanisms of Tinder, Facebook and Co. ππΌ
"They'll do anything to make you an addict," they say about #Tinder, #Facebook, #CandyCrush, #Instagram, #YouTube, #Snapchat, #Uber and #Twitter in the miniseries of #Arte. Eight episodes explain in detail which mechanisms are triggered in our brain to keep us engaged
πΊ ππΌ https://t.me/BlackBox_Archiv/833 ππΌ πΊ
#surveillance #capitalism #SocialDilemma #dystopian #democracy #thinkabout #why
π‘@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_DE
π‘@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_EN
π‘@BlackBox_Archiv
π‘@NoGoolag
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The Social Dilemma
Why the algorithms of #TikTok are possibly optimized more for screentime and less for suicide removal is explained very clearly in the new Netflix documentary "The Social Dilemma". Director Jeff Orlowski has put all the ethics big shotsβ¦
Why the algorithms of #TikTok are possibly optimized more for screentime and less for suicide removal is explained very clearly in the new Netflix documentary "The Social Dilemma". Director Jeff Orlowski has put all the ethics big shotsβ¦