RE: Is that you, or the algorithm speaking?

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Hi @tarazkp,

It really is an interesting question. Although to be honest, I think what you are raising is not a new problem. For thousands of years, elites have campaigned to manipulate people to force them to do their bidding. When it didn't work, They simply used force. Today the strategy has not fundamentally changed, only that the methods and techniques have been perfected. People are asleep, but the worst thing is that many when they wake up prefer to return to the state of the sheep.

In the generation of our grandparents, they used radios, in that of our parents, a combination of radio and television, in mine or ours, incorporating the internet into the aforementioned, and surely in the near future, our children, and grandchildren will deal with Intelligence Artificial (IA) to a degree greater than what we treat.

Sometimes I feel like living in a somewhat dystopian world, I would prefer a utopia, but the reality is overwhelming and points the way to a society in the best style of the Matrix movie.

In all ages there have been individuals who disconnect at some point in their lives from the control scaffolding for their good or bad, in that sense, it is good to be a bug in the system, it is good to savor some freedom.



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In the generation of our grandparents, they used radios, in that of our parents, a combination of radio and television, in mine or ours, incorporating the internet into the aforementioned, and surely in the near future, our children, and grandchildren will deal with Intelligence Artificial to a degree greater than what we treat.

I see it as different from the past - the scale is not only far greater, the messaging is tailored to the individual with granular precision. Not only that, there is less psychological separation, it feels much more part of us. Not only this, the ramping up of influence ability are magnitudes greater and there is no evolving the brain to adapt, because it leverages the brain at the fundamental level the way it is.

Sometimes I feel like living in a somewhat dystopian world, I would prefer a utopia, but the reality is overwhelming and points the way to a society in the best style of the Matrix movie.

One interesting idea that was mentioned in the movie was that we are simultaneously living in a dystopia and a utopia, the utopia being the positive emotional feedback we get from the tech, the dystopia being the tech controlling us.

in that sense, it is good to be a bug in the system, it is good to savor some freedom.

The problem with being a bug in today's world is - there is no place to hide from being squashed - the eye of data is all-seeing.

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You will have heard about the cycle of life, as well as ancient legends. I think we are reaching the restart of the cycle, perhaps that is why you have the impression that it is something different, but I assure you that it is not. Something indisputable that you mentioned with certainty is that nowadays, disagreeing with the prevailing system is crazy because of the risk of being crushed. I suppose you have read something about Roko's Basilisk, well, you are right there is no escape, however, hope always persists.

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I haven't read about that - I don't read much.

I don't think this is the same as in the past - the reset might be species ending.

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In order not to read a lot, you write very well. Perhaps it would be better not to read much to avoid confronting the ideas that they want to incur in us, in addition, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was very right when he advised stopping reading the books because they were repetitive, perhaps, he knew something about the manipulation by propaganda.

You're right, we are probably at the end of the cycles.

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Reading is good if targeted, but for the most part . it is a space filler - more entertainment. Most of what people read has very little practical value to their lives except maybe being able to have a conversation on a topic. However, that isn't real knowledge, it is repetition. The most interesting conversations are with people who love what they talk about enough to live it and, those who love to think enough about what they love to form their own opinions on it. Rare breeds these days.

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The question then, my friend, would be directed by whom? I think that life is a self-discovery for the most daring. I agree people like the ones you describe have always been oddities forever.

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I feel that they are becoming ever more rare, as people start to consume the same, talk the same, like the same - globally syndicated information.

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Bad symptoms, very bad symptoms ...

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Oh yeah - directed by whatever makes profits. It is a feedback mechanism that keeps feeding itself.

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