BS: 1984 was right, but not quite...........

Subject: RE: BS: 1984 was right, but not quite...........
From: Iains
Date: 29 Oct 17 - 09:58 AM

I think we are way past 1984. Here you can say what you like-so long as you toe the party line. The ministry of truth rules OK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: 1984 was right, but not quite...........
From: Greg F.
Date: 29 Oct 17 - 09:13 AM

I suppose "Artificial Intelligence" is better than "No Intelligence"

Then why are you so fond of President Id-Baby?

Poor, poor pitiful you.

Now, back to the subject of the thread.....

Subject: RE: BS: 1984 was right, but not quite...........
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 29 Oct 17 - 08:18 AM

In short this section will die"

Bring it on.

Subject: RE: BS: 1984 was right, but not quite...........
From: akenaton
Date: 29 Oct 17 - 07:13 AM

I wouldn't have expected you, Richard, to have any interest in the preservation of free speech.
Your printed history here has been dedicated to the concealment of any societal problems.

Subject: RE: BS: 1984 was right, but not quite...........
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 29 Oct 17 - 07:03 AM

Aw diddums

Subject: RE: BS: 1984 was right, but not quite...........
From: Iains
Date: 29 Oct 17 - 05:56 AM

Mr Red. Your approach is not very sporting. You are supposed to play by their rules. A joker in the pack is a definite no-no!

Subject: BS: 1984 was right, but not quite...........
From: Mr Red
Date: 29 Oct 17 - 05:18 AM

like all predictions/warnings it never quite paints the right colours, the correct vista even though it looks in the right direction.

In the Trump election I warned "Be afraid, America, be very afraid!" - not because I could see the future. But after the Arab Spring, Brexit, and all those ads that follow your recent surfing and some pretty extreme idiocy from a "friend" who posted the most egregious crap he obviously believed - I glimpsed the gears grinding.

Call me paranoiac but this lady on TED.com explains it better, and at length. We're building an artificial intelligence-powered dystopia.

It is why we are getting left-field political results. Because the movers understand Goggle and Fakebook better and use them better. It is also polarizing people. We are more than ever a divided society.

And my chosen appellations for them are a heads up, not a whimsey.

My solution? Not much of one, but intend to browse for the most uninteresting (to me) stuff. Give them algorithms some serious noise.