Re: Bullshit as emergent phenomenon (Re: Julia Ebner: Stop the online conspiracy theorists before they break democracy (Guardian))

2019-02-19 Thread mp
On 19/02/2019 02:57, Morlock Elloi wrote: > to which we meekly subject to demonstrate compliance. What word shall we > use for facts? What are facts anyway? Useful for building washing machines and cars? Eternal truths? For who? 'Facts' and the notion of them that you seem to be chasing are wi

Re: Bullshit as emergent phenomenon (Re: Julia Ebner: Stop the online conspiracy theorists before they break democracy (Guardian))

2019-02-19 Thread Morlock Elloi
BTW, take a look at this graph: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&geo=US&q=%22fake%20news%22,%22conspiracy%20theory%22 It seems that "fake news" meme failed, and we're moving back to time-tested "conspiracy theory". On 2/18/19, 23:57, Morlock Elloi wrote: Read this ov

Bullshit as emergent phenomenon (Re: Julia Ebner: Stop the online conspiracy theorists before they break democracy (Guardian))

2019-02-18 Thread Morlock Elloi
Read this over and over: > it will be > necessary to regulate against harmful infrastructures and malicious > behaviors. As early adopters of new technologies, extremists will "harmful", "malicious" and "extremists" will be detected by objective mass spectrometry in certified labs. It used to

Julia Ebner: Stop the online conspiracy theorists before they break democracy (Guardian)

2019-02-18 Thread Patrice Riemens
Original to: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/18/online-conspiracy-theorists-democracy Opinion - Technology Stop the online conspiracy theorists before they break democracy Julia Ebner Cannibals, aliens and clandestine lizard overlords: thanks to algorithms, such ideas threat