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usonian

(26,593 posts)
Mon Sep 16, 2024, 10:49 AM Sep 2024

Eyes on the prize, folks. Every stunt, every blatant lie, is a distraction.

Distraction is the game they're playing. As Stephen Fry said of social media:

Yuval Noah Harari’s fascinating new book Nexus concentrates at one point on the two word goal of the algorithms that were put to work to monetise Facebook when it moved from university bulletin board to global network and decided to pay for itself with online advertising. The two words the algorithms were tasked with were “maximise engagement”. Seemed innocent enough at the time. No one predicted, neither software engineer, philosopher, sociologist, cultural commentator nor psychologist, that those algorithms on their journey to capture our clicks would discover that engagement is most maximised by anger, outrage, resentment, envy, fear and hatred. The worst passions. In all of us — you and me — not just in our ideological enemies.


https://stephenfry.substack.com/p/ai-a-means-to-an-end-or-a-means-to

Don't take AI. Takes ME. Maximize Engagement.
"All attention on ME"
That's their "algorithm"
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Eyes on the prize, folks. Every stunt, every blatant lie, is a distraction. (Original Post) usonian Sep 2024 OP
K&R Think. Again. Sep 2024 #1
Absolutely. Which is why B.See Sep 2024 #2
Typo: misspelled "enragement". nt eppur_se_muova Sep 2024 #3
Keep Dump/Vantz in the news 24/7 is the goal. Expect their shenanigans to increase Clouds Passing Sep 2024 #4
Everyone and I do mean everyone knows that now JCMach1 Sep 2024 #5

B.See

(8,863 posts)
2. Absolutely. Which is why
Mon Sep 16, 2024, 10:56 AM
Sep 2024

I ignore most of it and keep right on posting what I've been posting about THEM.

Clouds Passing

(8,192 posts)
4. Keep Dump/Vantz in the news 24/7 is the goal. Expect their shenanigans to increase
Mon Sep 16, 2024, 11:03 AM
Sep 2024

in bizarreness, largesse and intensity on an hourly basis. Explosive gaslighting.

Let’s keep our focus on the joy, community and sanity of Harris and Walz!

JCMach1

(29,242 posts)
5. Everyone and I do mean everyone knows that now
Mon Sep 16, 2024, 12:15 PM
Sep 2024

To the point of becoming a joke.

If you don't believe it, you have been missing out on the 'Eat the Kitty' remixes 🐈😺🐈

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