High weirdness by Mentifex Whenever you discover that something you write is subject to a view-count on a venue like Flickr or a Wiki space or a book store, you might feel a memetic itch to engineer an uptick in the accumulating quantity of viewings of the quantified item. You don't have to be a quant on Wall Street to realize the value in having far-flung outposts on the Net where hordes of Netizens pay a visit. Your immediate quandary is, how do you make your memetic vestigia or footprints accumulate large numbers of viewings over time? Ah, it is all part of The Art of the Meme, my son, or my daughter, or you who are the genetic offspring of my procreation of artificial minds in English, German or Russian. In your special, local (non-public) webpage for the creation of blog-posts and public webpages, you will keep and accrete to an "Embeddings" section of URL links through which you will rotate an element at a time so that the various items with visible view-counts will have an increasing tendency to receive fortuitous Web traffic, and to attain ascendancy in search engine optimization (SEO). Although you are simply trying to keep your view-counted item before the public eye, Sergey and Larry's search engine tabulates the number of links to an item in order to calculate a Page rank for that item, named after Larry. Everybody wants to be on the first page of search returns for any topic. Bing is not Google (get it? B-i-n-g?) and so we will not worry too much about BinG, but the kids at Google are eminently worthy of our adult supervision. Now, don't let anybody ever accuse you of spamdexing, which is an ugly, despicable term for the placement of spam so as to influence the indexing of websites by search engines. You may be guilty as hell, but which is more important, the Technological Sigularity or the legitimacy of search engine result returns. Although I hate expressions like "spamdexing" and "link-farm", I don't worry about each phenomenon itself. I worry much more about the crazed and desperate reactions from certain AI-field Netizens who suddenly tumble to what Mentifex has been getting away with for years, decades, centuries and now two millennia. Their minds crumble and splinter into blithering idiocy when they try to get one single link onto the first page of search results, and they discover to their enervating chagrin that Mentifex is already there with five or six or seven of the top ten search results. And these are fragile human beings that we are talking about here. They are already in danger and at risk when they choose to devote their young life to the ever-receding, ever-tantalizing goal of artificial intelligence. The longer they work towards AI, the further it gets away from them. They haven't learned the trick of the academics, which is [oh man, I don't know if I can publish this; this is going to cause a firestorm] to pay lip service to the lofty goals of artificial intelligence while feathering their beds with titles like Distinguished Fellow of the AI Scam Society and People Warned About in the Lighthill Report. It is no wonder that the true Einsteins of AI report that "most work in the AI field is embarrassingly unambitious and boring." (Google to find the reference, which is too unpleasant and Mentifex-bashing for Mentifex himself to provide the offensive link.)
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