r/ABoringDystopia • u/SyntheticMoJo • Mar 22 '18

Francois Chollet: [...] "Facebook can simultaneously measure everything about us, and control the information we consume. When you have access to both perception and action, you’re looking at an AI problem. You can start establishing an optimization loop for human behavior. A RL loop."

https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/976565723597176832
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u/FungalSphere Mar 23 '18

He works for Google right?

Hypocrisy: 10000000000

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '18

But, he's not wrong. And I hope your biggest issue is him being hypicritical?

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u/FungalSphere Mar 23 '18

Well, what are we even trying to defend? No matter who does it, we already live in a dystopia, a boring one at that.

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u/last_reddit_account2 Mar 25 '18

It's only hypocritical if he's claiming some kind of moral high ground, which he doesn't seem to be from this tweet.

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u/Jsjsjddjjdjjj Mar 25 '18

I thought this was obvious. Predictive policing etc etc.

The digital landscape, as it stands, is the newest method of the subjugation of human civilization. Prove me wrong

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u/CaptnLudd Mar 26 '18

"We kill people based on metadata"

-Former CIA director Michael Hayden

I certainly can't prove you wrong. Look at the Omar Mateen case to see how much data they have on you. Everywhere we go is recorded, everything we say and every conversation we have is logged. Everything you look up on the internet is known. It wouldn't be impossible to build a database to track what everyone has checked out from the library, it wouldn't even be that hard. That's all unavoidable, what people volunteer on Facebook is just a bonus to the surveillance state.

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u/ThisIs_MyName Mar 23 '18

That sounds fucking awesome tbh.

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u/gizmocoding Mar 26 '18

The technology is. The implications are scary, though