tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post6438007352947630959..comments2024-03-17T03:42:21.277-05:00Comments on LEARNING CURVE ON THE ECLIPTIC: Who is Robert Mercer ? Twilighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-45112442962753020492017-08-23T08:52:27.750-05:002017-08-23T08:52:27.750-05:00JD ~ Thank you for these observations. Mercer is ...JD ~ Thank you for these observations. Mercer is one scary dude! These types ought not to be let loose on we "common people"! A quote from Edward Bernays (Propoganda):<br /><br /><i> “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ...We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. ...In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons...who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.”</i><br /><br />Shudder! <br /><br /> Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-68477013202684353922017-08-23T08:37:14.930-05:002017-08-23T08:37:14.930-05:00Comment received by e-mail from the UK
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Your...<b>Comment received by e-mail from the UK</b><br /><br /><b>JD</b> <br />Your post about Robert Mercer rang a bell when I saw the words Cambridge Analytical. I wrote this a couple of weeks ago - https://theylaughedatnoah.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/tv-from-sublime-to-ridiculous-by-jd.html<br />.... but I didn't do a follow up on the second part of the Beeb's Silicon Valley programme. The second one was rather more worrying than the first because it went into the details of how Cambridge Analytical was used in the Trump election campaign and then using the psychological profiling you mention, the campaign were designing very personal adverts to go into people's Facebook or twitter accounts etc. It was ironic that Zuckerberg was very anti-Trump and yet his own technology was used to benefit the Trump campaign. <br /><br />These tech wizards are virtually indistinguishable from their machines; mechanical thinking instead of intuitive thinking. Or as in the Niels Bohr quote "You are being merely logical instead of thinking!"<br /><br />I have never been worried about Artificial Intelligence because it can easily be subverted, as the Trump campaign proved, and because the people who create AI systems are not particularly intelligent. They might have very higf IQ but that means nothing. Clive Sinclair was chairman of Mensa for a number of years but his famous C5 'car' was easily the stupidest car ever created! But he still thought it was a good idea even after Stirling Moss drove it and told him it was the most dangerous thing he had ever driven.Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.com