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1. solariiknight(ஆனந்த்) (solariiknight@social.systemreboot.net)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2018 03:30:30 EST solariiknight(ஆனந்த்)
   " People will be living in a world that they think they understand and know about, but they’ll unknowingly be viewing only establishment-approved information."
   https://social.systemreboot.net/url/73231
   1. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2018 04:06:49 EST Bob Mottram

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      @solariiknight In olden times it's not that the king was always telling you what to believe. It's that mobility of most of the population was very limited. You would most likely live and die in the same village. And transmission of information was only verbal. So you would probably believe whatever your ancestors did.
   2. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2018 04:15:42 EST Bob Mottram

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      @solariiknight I think what's being described here is what will play out over the next few years. Facebook and Twitter will try to deploy AI as a substitute for human censors, and human censors are a substitute for community or affinity. I expect this is a project which will fail, or at best turn those sites into a sterile, Compuserve-like environment of highly curated and officially approved information. The more likely outcome I think is that the AIs will be chaos generstors. They won't understand communities or context, and will make dumb decisions which unleash further waves of outrage.