Greetings good citizen, did you catch the piece HBO's VICE did with Edward Snowden? Like an omnipotent god, the alphabet soup of national security agencies are doing such a yeoman's job of capturing our private messages, so much so that they can't make heads nor tails of it.
Without an A.I. to sort it all out for them, our, er, communications are pretty much a pile of largely contextless jibberish already past its potential usefulness.
Snowden pointed to the Boston Marathon bombing as an example of this 'information overload'. After the fact it was revealed that the perps HAD set off some 'red flags' but not enough to warrant the level of scrutiny that would have prevented the tragedy.
While speech recognition software has come a long way since it's inception, it's cousin 'autocorrect' still leaves a lot to be desired. [So we can speculate with a fairly high degree of certainty that A.I. is still a hole, surrounded by server farms, that you throw money into.]
It's the 'development stages' when the 'inexperienced' A.I. is learning what's expected of it that the system will be the most dangerous.
As a 'training method' the system will likely be tasked with profiling 'everybody'...except the oligarchs, their names and communications will be specifically excepted.
Unsurprisingly, those running the test will be unaware that their system has 'holes/blindspots' but it's above their paygrade just the same.
Will somebody discover the missing profiles?
Depends on who has access...although we all know the most fleeting thing in existence is a secret.
Once the initial the furor dies down, how will those 'profiles' be used? Will employer's be able to 'buy' access to the files compiled on their employees?
How many careers will be ruined by an offhand remark, meant as a joke, made over the phone? The machine will 'probably' be able to grasp the idea of humor and could even disregard this from it's calculations EXCEPT those running the operation will turn that gate off. They won't trust the machine to make that kind of distinction.
Worse, humans, opportunists that they are, know blackmail can be a very profitable enterprise.
This is the 'nightmare' total spectrum awareness creates. We will train ourselves to never utter anything that could be turned against us...and what passes for civilization will collapse.
[How many times have I said THAT? I know, too many.]
It hasn't happened yet but we're inching closer all the time.
One of the primary pillars of civilization is 'trust'. Without trust civilization is impossible...so when the portion of civilization tasked with keeping the status quo safe places the populous under scrutiny, that bond is broken...and your civilization collapses.
Naturally, it makes matters worse when those in a position to know better adopt a 'what are they gonna do about it?' attitude.
Like they don't know.
Ironically, they're pushing us toward revolt for all the wrong reasons. They are hoping to reveal the 'traitors' among us when it is they who have betrayed the rest of us!
But I digress. If the idea of the government 'collecting' (and retaining for 'future reference') ANYTHING, regardless of context, you ever 'transmit'...you have to ask yourself, what kind of MONSTERS are running this place?
Like to have a gander at THEIR file? Can't, it's 'classified' (because it could affect their 'job performance'.)
This is what happens when THEY can keep secrets while insuring that everything YOU do is an 'open book'...even the slaves were better off than you are!
Making it official, you are now 'less than a slave!'
Which is to opine, good citizen, that when a 'civilization' goes this far off the rails, it's time to scrap it and start over, junking all the 'damaged components' of the prior structure.
Which is to (great danger in failing to be specific) 'reccomend' that the entire justice system, from top to bottom be scrapped. Hold a 'civil service' job? Time to join the, er, 'working world' (because the entire 'patronage' network is going to be wiped out, specifically screened for 'prior service'.)
Got questions? Hit the comment button and let the world know what's on your mind!
Thank you for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Without an A.I. to sort it all out for them, our, er, communications are pretty much a pile of largely contextless jibberish already past its potential usefulness.
Snowden pointed to the Boston Marathon bombing as an example of this 'information overload'. After the fact it was revealed that the perps HAD set off some 'red flags' but not enough to warrant the level of scrutiny that would have prevented the tragedy.
While speech recognition software has come a long way since it's inception, it's cousin 'autocorrect' still leaves a lot to be desired. [So we can speculate with a fairly high degree of certainty that A.I. is still a hole, surrounded by server farms, that you throw money into.]
It's the 'development stages' when the 'inexperienced' A.I. is learning what's expected of it that the system will be the most dangerous.
As a 'training method' the system will likely be tasked with profiling 'everybody'...except the oligarchs, their names and communications will be specifically excepted.
Unsurprisingly, those running the test will be unaware that their system has 'holes/blindspots' but it's above their paygrade just the same.
Will somebody discover the missing profiles?
Depends on who has access...although we all know the most fleeting thing in existence is a secret.
Once the initial the furor dies down, how will those 'profiles' be used? Will employer's be able to 'buy' access to the files compiled on their employees?
How many careers will be ruined by an offhand remark, meant as a joke, made over the phone? The machine will 'probably' be able to grasp the idea of humor and could even disregard this from it's calculations EXCEPT those running the operation will turn that gate off. They won't trust the machine to make that kind of distinction.
Worse, humans, opportunists that they are, know blackmail can be a very profitable enterprise.
This is the 'nightmare' total spectrum awareness creates. We will train ourselves to never utter anything that could be turned against us...and what passes for civilization will collapse.
[How many times have I said THAT? I know, too many.]
It hasn't happened yet but we're inching closer all the time.
One of the primary pillars of civilization is 'trust'. Without trust civilization is impossible...so when the portion of civilization tasked with keeping the status quo safe places the populous under scrutiny, that bond is broken...and your civilization collapses.
Naturally, it makes matters worse when those in a position to know better adopt a 'what are they gonna do about it?' attitude.
Like they don't know.
Ironically, they're pushing us toward revolt for all the wrong reasons. They are hoping to reveal the 'traitors' among us when it is they who have betrayed the rest of us!
But I digress. If the idea of the government 'collecting' (and retaining for 'future reference') ANYTHING, regardless of context, you ever 'transmit'...you have to ask yourself, what kind of MONSTERS are running this place?
Like to have a gander at THEIR file? Can't, it's 'classified' (because it could affect their 'job performance'.)
This is what happens when THEY can keep secrets while insuring that everything YOU do is an 'open book'...even the slaves were better off than you are!
Making it official, you are now 'less than a slave!'
Which is to opine, good citizen, that when a 'civilization' goes this far off the rails, it's time to scrap it and start over, junking all the 'damaged components' of the prior structure.
Which is to (great danger in failing to be specific) 'reccomend' that the entire justice system, from top to bottom be scrapped. Hold a 'civil service' job? Time to join the, er, 'working world' (because the entire 'patronage' network is going to be wiped out, specifically screened for 'prior service'.)
Got questions? Hit the comment button and let the world know what's on your mind!
Thank you for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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