[ExI] Russians bots at work again?

[William Flynn Wallace]

There is no Heaven without a Hell.  bill w

On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 11:16 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> > *On Behalf Of *Darin Sunley via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Russians bots at work again?
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> >…Ooh! Better yet! Strip their right to vote! That'll convince them they
> aren't the brave opposition to a powerful Washington conspiracy, /and/ have
> the bonus of restricting political discourse in this country
> to right-thinking, qualified people only!  Darin
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> Darin think about it: we have long held the Spanish Inquisition theory on
> the Singularity.  It just shows up suddenly, nobody expected the
> Singularity when it happened.
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> Sure, the Singularity just happens one day, bursts thru the door with some
> mysteriously hilarious comment; call that the Spanish Inquisition model.
> But what if… the singularity just happens gradually, call it the kudzu
> model, where your hedges have a parasitic vine, you need to go out and take
> care of that but you hit the snooze button and it keeps growing, you see it
> gradually more and more every day, no sudden change on any particular day
> until you realize it has now become difficult to tell the plants from the
> kudzu.
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> What if… people find ways to make money with bots on the internet, in a
> kind of parasitic way, such as likebots gobbling up advertising dollars.
> One might argue that likebots are not parasitic, the companies offer Face
> Book and Twitter money to air their ads, it is a bargain for the company,
> Face Book and Twitter make money, the bots don’t care how many ads they
> “see” so it isn’t parasitic.  But… somewhere somehow someone has to pay for
> all that, and it hasta be the end consumer, ja?
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> What if… the singularity gradually happens and we get to where we cannot
> tell which stories are real, which are being massively likebotted, which
> are being generated by memebots and trendbots then massively liked by
> likebots?  We look around one day and realize we can no longer reliably
> tell meat world reality from virtual reality.  The singularity happened
> when no one was looking, or if they were looking they didn’t recognize it
> while it was underway.
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> spike
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