Posted on 03/03/2015 3:32:35 PM PST by Starman417
Now that the pervasive invasion of your privacy is complete, it is now time to conduct a full frontal assault on your minds, . . . and this battering will also not hurt. The secret is in the subtlety of the assault.
The invasion of your privacy, yes your privacy, you know that thing you treasure so much, that space you think is your private domain, is complete and it’s not private anymore. The invasion didn’t hurt so much did it? You accepted and swallowed the fear-of-terrorism wafer, which justified all invasions of private space.
Were you offended? Were you self consciously ambivalent? No matter. All your conversations, written or otherwise are now fair game for an out-of-control and oppressive bureaucracy your tax dollars pay for.
The invasion in now about to be stepped-up so that “listening” to what you say and write will be the least of your problems — you are about to be submitted to an incursion that will influence our percepts. Google is testing the rollout of a system that will control the “truth,” exactly as its narcissistic masters deem it to be. The very same wisdom which converted the Internet into a gigantic advertising billboard, in now going to dictate what is factual and what is not, through its Knowledge Vault.
Google’s “Sell” is simple, “We’re developing incredibly complex, but intelligent, algorithms, which you’ll never understand, but which will discern what is most factually correct, . . . for you,” (paraphrasing). That outrageous representation is being accepted even by those who should know better. It is impossible to build algorithms that can discern truth. Algorithms can discern data points, however, algorithms cannot independently detect, recognize, or determine, the relevant nature of multiple facts and their hierarchy in truth. Pretending that the Internet can deliver “relevant” truthfulness and that algorithms can detect that difference, is just that, a pretense. Only with human input can processors establish hierarchical structures of facts to deliver factualness or truthfulness, and this means that when the human factor penetrates the equation, well, . . . humans will be humans. They will not be able to help themselves, and will adjust, or interpret, our facts and their factuality quotients.
Delivering rankings on use, or visits, or hits, is useful, and no doubt much of what will be available to us on Knowledge Vault will be factual, however, much will also NOT be factual, but will be opined to be factual, not by algorithms, but by corporeal processors.
Google for example, pretends that it will tell algorithms to accept as fact, what the “Internet” has accepted unanimously, or almost unanimously, across its vast store of information. Where in the universe is it possible for an algorithm to perceive information, then determine that the Internet concurs with it, and then establish it as fact? In Google's universe? Even theoretically, the notion of consensus on objective facts, or scientific facts, borders on the impossible, so how can we expect that things such as human experience, possibly fit nicely into an algorithm’s crunching, spitting out perfectly delineated truths?
Google is trying to float that algorithms will process the Internet and provide us “truth”? Can’t wait to read what the Knowledge Vault oracle submits to us on climate change. Of course, a monster like the Knowledge Vault will not only deal with scientific facts, or human knowledge facts, or hard numbers that are incontrovertible, but it will be a purveyor of knowledge about everything — everything that is written about and available on the Internet. There will be positive, useful, elements of these new engines analyzing information, however, there is no chance that human input will not be involved in influencing the input and the output of such a system.
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It's a cliche until it's not.
He who searches Google, is searched by Google.
So I am supposed to find truth is a company that supplied the electronic election support for Obama?
Duckduckgo.com all the way. I never use anything Google.
I suspect that the Google algorithms will not indicate that Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. These algorithms will be a tool of Satan.
I am currently reading an article about the “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data”. (I’m actually on page 3 of 5 right now.) The authors point out that there are many areas where simple algorithms operating on massive amounts of data provide superior results to complex algorithms operating on only “large” amounts of data. Within the article, these proponents of big data list several limitations. Two are of importance to this discussion: “Competition” and “Inaccuracy and deception”.
The concede that if the data stores are populated by those who feel they are in competition, then they may be led to play their cards close to the chest and not reveal correct or accurate data. Example: many of the AGW proponents refuse to reveal unmodified data sets.
Secondly, they concede that the big data methodology, as proposed by this article, does not work where there is inaccurate data or deceptive data. Thus, searching news reports would lead one to believe that Sarah Palin not employing an official government email account during the 2008 campaign was a “hanging offense” while Hillary Clinton not employing an official government email account while serving as the Secretary of State is not particularly notable.
“Facts” like global warming, can be promoted over those sites that espouse other views.
At CPAC, there was a breakout session just on Google. They have monopolistic market power, have been tightly bound to the Obama campaign and administration, and are the recipients of unique corporate cronyism from the Government, such as a unique opportunity to change the Net Neutrality proposal, that even the Republican commissioners did.
They wantonly violate intellectual property and privacy, collecting information on citizens like nothing before in history.
What ever it’s advertisers- the people who pay Google, who pay them for YOU BTW- want to be true... is!
And what they don’t want to be true ... isn’t!
I, for one, welcome our not-so-new-anymore internet advertising overlords.
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