from Zero Hedge That's right, a bunch of idiots could look competent next to the US Democratic Party as they continuein their bid to have President Trump removed from office. In fact The Three Stooges would have a better chance of beating Trump in 2020 than anyone wearing a 'Democratic Party candidate' label.
Following the testimonies of both former FBI Director James Comey and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Left's 'Russian Collusion' narrative has completely unraveled. Comey's admission under oath that Trump was never under investigation and that he never attempted to influence the Russia investigation was a startling realization for disaffected democrats and the mainstream media who have been flailing around ever since anxiously attempting to craft a new damaging narrative to perpetuate their witch hunt.
Now, we learn this morning via the Washington Post that the new narrative of choice for disaffected democrats will be that Trump is violating the "emoluments clause" of the constitution every time a foreigner decides to stay at one of his hotels. According to Wapo, nearly 200 Democrat members of Congress have signed onto the lawsuit led by Senator Richard Blumenthal.Read more >>>
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is concerned about the frenetic propaganda efforts by governments and tech companies to convince us with propaganda spread through mainstream media that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is with us and machines are already as smart as humans and are set to surpass us. The Wikileaks founder predicts a dystopian future world where human perception is no match for Artificial Intelligence - controlled propaganda and the consequences of AI are lost on its creators, wide eyed idealists who envision a nirvana-like future and the gimlet eyed power addicts they work for.
Like Assange I was an Information Technology professional and although I do not agree with his view that Artifical Intelligence already or will ever exist, I share his concerns. My view is that machines outperform us in their ability to parse vast amounts of data incredibly quickly and match strings. A computer has and can never have the ability to understand the data it processes, to translate binary strings into words and numbers and infer meanings from those numbers, Thus I have always said the only way to make computers truly intelligent is by radically defining what we mean by intelligent.
But enough of my opinions, I broadly agree with Assange about the ability of software bots to manipulate perceptions in order to advance political agendas so let's look at what he said about the threat of AI-controlled social media when speaking through a video link at rapper and activist M.I.A.’s Meltdown Festival in the Southbank Centre, London.
Addressing the future of AI, Assange told a panel including Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek that there will be a time when AI will be used to adjust perception.
“Imagine a Daily Mail run by essentially Artificial Intelligence, what does that look like when there’s only the Daily Mail worldwide? That's what Facebook and Twitter will shift into,” he said.
Assange also referenced the intense pressure Facebook and Google were under to ensure Emmanuel Macron, and not Marine Le Pen, won last month’s French presidential election runoff.
When asked by M.I.A. if AI and Virtual Reality (VR) technology will make society more vulnerable to political manipulation, Assange replied: “Yes, of course we can be influenced, but I don’t see that as the main problem.”
"Human beings have always been influenced by sophisticated systems of production, information and experience, [such as the] BBC for example.”
The technologies “just amplify the power of the ability to project into the mind,” he added.
The main concern for Assange’s is around how AI can be used to advance propaganda.
“The most important development as far as the fate of human beings are concerned is that we are getting close to the threshold where the traditional propaganda function that is employed by BBC, The Daily Mail, [or The New York Times and CNN] and cultures also, can be encapsulated by AI processes,” Assange said.
“When you have AI programs harvesting all the search queries and YouTube videos someone uploads it starts to lay out perceptual influence campaigns, twenty to thirty moves ahead. This starts to become totally beneath the level of human perception.”
Admitting his vision was dystopian, he suggested that he could be wrong.
“Maybe there will be a new band of technologically empowered human beings that can see this [rueful] fate coming towards us, [which] will be able to extract value or diminish it by directly engaging with it – that's also possible.”
Another insight offered by the WikiLeaks founder was his opinion that engineers involved in AI lack perception about what they’re doing.
“I know from our sources deep inside the Silicon Valley institution[s] that they genuinely believe that they are going to produce AI that's so powerful, relatively soon, that people will have their brains digitized, uploaded to these AIs and live forever in simulation, therefore have eternal life.”
“It's like a religion for atheists,” he added. “And given you’re in a simulation, why not program the simulation to have endless drug and sex orgy parties around you.”
Assange said this vision makes them work harder and the dystopian consequences of their work is overshadowed by cultural and industrial bias to not perceiving it.
He concluded that the normal perception someone would have regarding their work has been supplanted with “this ridiculous quasi-religious model in which humans learn to process data the way computers do it, and that's it all going to lead to nirvana.”
The ambition of the Nerds to create a computer controlled world has been foreseen and satirized in novels and movies. but we only have to look at how dysfunctional or misanthropic tech billionaires like bill Gates, Page and Brin, Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg are to understand their vision of a tech utopia will be a living nightmare for normal, well balanced human beings. See a video of Assange's full s address below.
They way Google has come to dominate the internet just as the internet has come to dominate our lives can't all be down to good luck and careful planning can it? As this page develops you will see how sinister forces guided Google to their current position.
Although the Westminster terror attack is still filling the print and broadcast news and the usual conspiracy theories about it’s being a false flag incident start to circulate, attention is turning to the role of technology companies such as Google, Facebook and Twitter in the process of radicalisation. Google stands accused of providing easy access …
Shock, Horror! Millennials Safe Space Violated As Facebook Algo Accident Exposes Them To Diverse Ideas
Late last month (August 2016,) the Zuckerbugger's zoons put an algorithm in charge of the Facebook “trending” feature, to select the most popular topics, articles and keywords on the web in a narrow timeframe and with due respect for the 'safe space' of millenials who can be traumatised if they encounter microaggrrrrressions in the form of controversial ideas or unorthodox opinions ...
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Have you ever come across someone on the Internet that you suspected was a paid government troll? Well, there is a very good chance that you were not imagining things. Thanks to Edward Snowden, we now have solid proof that paid government trolls are using “psychology-based influence techniques” on social media websites such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.
Even if you are using privacy tools is your internet browsing safe. How secret are your financial transactions, are the off colour jokes you share with friends really private, and what about the kind of sites you would never tell your mother you visit? While you are watching porn, who is watching you?
In an online Question and Answer session this week Facebook supremo and founding megalomaniacal sociopath Mark Zuckerberg announced that his company is engaged in building AI systems "that are better than humans at our primary senses."
A couple of weeks ago I reported on Google’s acquisition of technology / real-life integration wankers Nest who sll themselves on the idea that they are soon going to be able to build washing machines and fridges that can talk to you, think for you, boss you around and … make you feel like a …
Barack Obama's seizing control of the internet by executive fiat is a serious breach of The US Consitution but for the rest of the world is perhaps the clearest idication yet of what the man is all about. Comparisons with Hitler can no longer be dismissed as a conspiracy theory.
Online shills paid to control your perception by spreading propaganda using up to 10 online personas
Libertarian and freethinking bloggers and new media writers are having a great time. For years our efforts to warn people about the opush towards global fascism earned us hate attacks and accusations that we were conspiracy theorists. And now, alomst daily, another of those conspiracy theories is being proved true
Government and big busin.ess has been nudging us towards abandoning cash for electronic money for a long time. Now the Frech government has become the first to move towards making cash illegal (because government can't keep tabs on what you do with your money when cash passes from hand to hand ...
Google boss Eric Schmidt has defended Google's barely legal tax avoidance practices saying Googl;e's contribution to UK national life is more important than the money they owe us. boycott Google, Big is a good serach engine.
n recent years the scientific community have been clamouring to tell us thy are close to mapping the workings of the human brain and understanding the workings of the human mind. now I recall while recovering from a brain haemorrhage fifteen years ago being told by a very good doctor that medical science was only just starting to understand that the brain (a physical organ) and the mind (a mystery) were very different things. And I have neither read nor heard anything since to make me think he was wrong.
