Big Tech as the New Big Tobacco
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Big Tech as the New Big Tobacco
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#2Big Techbacco
I don't think it's wrong. "Stupid" random information is addictive and has neurological effects and we're bombarded with it.
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#3Oh, it's far more than that. Virtual technodrugs, or addiction, is one arm of the emerging new order. The second arm is control: fine grained and invasive censorship, history rewriting and so on. The third arm is a much faster discovery of knowledge to empower the few. All three arms will derive their power from AI. It could be used for good, but the current state of things in our society don't favor such application of AI.
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#4I don't really think this is anything new in the corporate world, but the explosion of sources and easy access through devices is what's made this stuff so potent. It's tough enough as adults to resist the bombardment.
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#6Been saying this for years, the only reason these companies' execs aren't in prison is because they grease all the right palms, and provide enough "studies" those greased palms can use to plausibly justify their behavior.
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#7Oh, it's far more than that. Virtual technodrugs, or addiction, is one arm of the emerging new order. The second arm is control: fine grained and invasive censorship, history rewriting and so on. The third arm is a much faster discovery of knowledge to empower the few. All three arms will derive their power from AI. It could be used for good, but the current state of things in our society don't favor such application…
Yep and the two big limitations are:
1) What content would be interesting to the mark
2) Generating the actual content for the mark to view
And AI can easily do both.
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#8can we not conflate facebook.com and twitter with big tech? big tech is driving many of the technological advancements that have brought a new era of economic prosperity and growth to the world. hundreds of thousands of high paying jobs, tools for small businesses, a wealth of high quality information at our fingertips, the likes of which was one generation ago unimaginable.
tech is like humanity's one hope.
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#9Oh, it's far more than that. Virtual technodrugs, or addiction, is one arm of the emerging new order. The second arm is control: fine grained and invasive censorship, history rewriting and so on. The third arm is a much faster discovery of knowledge to empower the few. All three arms will derive their power from AI. It could be used for good, but the current state of things in our society don't favor such application…
You have the GenX "Hack the planet" types to thank for that. They are the ones who helped these people build their panopticon of terror.
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates will go down as authors of a new kind of tyranny.
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#10I'm more concerned about Big Food as the new Big Tabacco. You don't get cancer consuming tech products as much as you get from Big "food".