Pretty much what people already know by now. Algorithms find optimal ways to manipulate you.

The two ingredients are data and a way to measure the thing you’re trying to optimize. Machine learning is used to find optimal ways to keep people engaged in internet platforms. In other words they’re like designer drugs.

Worse than designer drugs. They’re continuously self optimizing because they keep measuring the results and making adjustments so the result stays optimal. As long as they have a continuous feed of recent data, the algorithm evolves to find the optimal solution.

That’s why recklessly giving away your personal data is dangerous. Let’s say the system notices you’ve been spending 1 microsecond less time engaged in screen time. The system will adjust to make sure they’ve reclaimed that 1 microsecond of your day.

It will show you things that tend to keep you engaged. How does it know that? Because you give it the data it needs to measure what keeps you online more. That data is based on every interaction with your phone or computer which is logged.

It’s worse than substance abuse because you never develop a tolerance. If you do then the algorithm has already adapted to find the next thing that keeps you engaged in the most optimal way.

It’s not just engagement. It’s whatever target you want to optimize for. As long as you have the two ingredients. Data and metrics.

That’s why data is called the new oil. Or was it gold rush? I can’t remember. It’s been called this since the early 2000s maybe.

LLM AI isn’t so scary when you know that they’ve been using AI against us for a very long time already. If more of the world understood all this better, we’d all have quit to study poetry already.

This kind of work now pays hundreds per hour. They verify credentials of course.

I haven’t looked at Discord since December after getting into an argument. So perfect timing I guess.

The platform is ass anyways. Monetized features everywhere.

Reddit is State Department agitprop. This leak is probably a tiny fraction of their operations on reddit.

It’s crazy how successful that platform is because nobody suspects it. Redditors all hate the other social media platforms. They cannot fathom that reddit is just as bad or worse.

But why is that. Is it the illusion of control. Because ostensibly its a user curated site. Because they think they have voting power. All of these things have proven to be completely false time and again. Yet the illusion of reddit persists.

It’s why nothing will ever change. People don’t care more than getting some potshots. It’s why the population is so easy to distract.

You’re the smartest one here so what’s going to happen if not democracy and not war?

Your mental block will never allow you to understand this but reddit is a right wing pedo shithole.

The caravans of murderers and rapists was another accusation as a confession.

My grandpa died angry. He lived to 100. Probably hated every minute of it. That’s about when I figured it’s genetic. My father is angry too. And so am I.

He made everyone miserable. The whole family of baby boomer kids and gen-x/millennial grandkids had to put up with his shit until the bitter end as the manbaby patriarch. Nobody cried at his funeral. You heard saying “not a dry eye”. If there’s an opposite then that was it.

Seeing the dysfunctional Trump family on the world stage these past 10 years has been all to familiar. At least with the millennials and gen-z in my family, the cycle of rigid traditional hierarchy isn’t being continued.

That doesn’t sound left-leaning. It’s not about you. It’s not about holding you responsible. That’s a talking point straight out of the conservative victimhood playbook.

In every single one of these ICE encounter videos they always have one masked goon dedicated to filming everything with professional camera gear. I don’t know why that isn’t more talked about. Given that big tech is involved in this regime as the benefactor, it should be a much bigger story.

I suppose it’s part of their psyop to blindspot people to it. I would not be surprised at this point.

This was done one purpose to instill fear of protesting.

Before the tech industry set its sights on AI, “hallucination” was called error rate.

It’s the rate at which the model incorrectly labelled outputs. But of course the tech industry being what it is needs to come up with alternative words that spin doctor bad things into not bad things. So what the field of AI for decades had been calling error rate, everyone now calls “hallucinations”. Error has far worse optics than hallucination. Nobody would be buying this LLM garbage if every article posted about it included paragraphs about how its full of errors.

That’s the thing people need to learn.

There’s also factors like modern TV format and audiences. The shorter one story arc seasons don’t allow any room to maneuver. Bottle episodes got an undeserved bad reputation from the segment of viewers who want a linear sprint to the conclusion. It’s like a boring generic first person shooter with only a straight line from start to finish. No exploration. Writers aren’t allowed to write.

They give the audiences what they they think the audiences might want. That is the safe, easy to write 6-10 episode plot. Sometimes the audiences like it. Sometimes the don’t. Either way they’ve strayed from actual writing anymore. Bottle episodes add dimension to characters. Multi-path seasons add depth and breadth to the entire ensemble.

A side effect of modern TV format is more focus on action. When they don’t have room to maneuver then they substitute with brief action. A bit of plot. More quick action. Advance the single main plot again. Maybe a little B-plot. Repeat until episode 6 to 10. That segment of viewers are so tunnel-visioned on squeezing everything out of less than a dozen episodes. They’re scared of one going to waste on bottle episodes or “filler”.

Writers don’t have any room to explore several different plots. Some spanned entire seasons or even multiple seasons. Some were just one episode. There is no room for it in modern television. Whereas before instead of pointless actual filler of action sequence, they could have started a whole other plot that lead to several more episodes later in the season. That would have opened up a whole world of characters that would be one dimensional side characters in modern television. Discovery was chock full of wasted potential in chracters.

If Chief O’Brien happened in modern TV and for modern audiences, he would not be the O’Brien who suffers. He would be a stereotypical snarky engineer who reads off the scripted technojargon. They’ll give him a likeable character quirk that is relatable to the young STEM crowd and then maybe kill him off randomly, ostensibly to make him a worthy character because he died. That’s as much depth as we’d get. A one dimensional character that people like superficially.

The disdain for bottle episodes might be one of the worst things to happen to the medium. That’s not to overshadow the other issue that TV shows do not have the level complexity they used to.

Literary and technical literacy are orthogonal. All you’re achieving here is to denigrate yourself.

Yeah, this was the most predictable thing ever. Did anyone else see the clip where ICE steals all the guy’s shit from his shopping cart. I guarantee you they left him somewhere else after robbing him.

Maybe if they wanted to be more cruel they tortured him. Maybe they put him through the whole ICE renditioning system anyways.

There’s 100% chance there have been a lot torture and assault just for the sake of it. Keep in mind these guys are basically state sponsored klan gangs. Crazy seeing history in real time.

Do you want the cool shit from Star Trek’s imaginary future or not?

You lost me there. Conflating a fictional future utopia with the product your trying to sell is cheap trick.

Anyone who uses this bad faith tactic loses all credibility. Post read and disregarded.

People get offended whenever I’ve said that even random app developers are part of the problem. They can’t or won’t see that what we have arrived at is a Kafkesque world. It has been death by millions of papercuts. The collective rush to make an “app for everything” was in net effect building a global surveillance dragnet. It was inevitable the aggregate of data would turned into an authoritarian system of oppression.

All you wanted to do was make a 99 cents a sale for your basic phone app. You blindly stuffed it with copy-paste analytics APIs that voraciously collect data from users without transparency at all. You insisted that these random data brokers are 100% super honest. Just trust them, bro. You ridiculed anyone of trying to warn people how reckless this is. Good job, guys.

America is definitively passed their point of no return. I personally like many think that was a long time ago but there are still people out there who cannot internalize it. They’re in denial.

The world is trying to tell you guys this. Yes, you will have to put your body on the line. You will miss work. You will miss your bills. You’ve already lost so much. You will lose more. It’s a foregone conclusion. The question is what can you salvage at the point.

No, telling the rest of us to put our own bodies on the line will not change your situation. Ukrainians have no choice but to fight their oppressor. Gazans have no choice but to fight for their lives. America is no exception. You’ve slid into fascism. You have to fight for your freedom now.

You never were the exception. This mentality has been your undoing. The system isn’t fixing itself because of some higher innate quality of being American. You have proven this yourselves. You tried voting. It didn’t work. You tried protesting. It didn’t work. You tried your systems of checks and balances. They’ve all been torn the shreds.

You will fight like the rest of the world fights for their freedom. The idea of American peace, liberty, and justice for all was a fun fantasy while it lasted. Your own weapons of oppression are pointed at you. It’s time to wake up to reality now. This is the America that the rest of the world knows.

Maybe now Americans will understand those around world didn’t hate you because you were better. They hate you because of the very oppression you now face yourselves.

The revolution will not be paid hourly. The revolution will not come with a salary.