Posted on 09/19/2020 4:58:47 AM PDT by Chickensoup
You’re wrong
this applies to all screens,
If you are scrolling through tv channels or websites. same thing
Agreed.
FR comments to users is a dopamine reward feed
“I think they should be treated as communication utilities.”
I think that would be a good goal, but in order for that to work, people will have to be convinced to pay to use FB instead of letting the advertising model to finance it. If people knew what the algorithms “think” about them, they might be inclined to pay to not have them.
OTOH cell phone and cable companies already have revenue streams from their users, so we could tell them to cut it out right now.
History, logic, and common sense always have and always will confirm that humans have thoughts, feelings, beliefs, convictions, ideologies, behaviors etc., etc. which are fundamentally contradictory and, ipso facto, mutually exclusive.
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You suggest that “the only solution is to disbelieve all ‘news and information’ and talk to one’s neighbors and friends with open minds.”
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Disbelieving all news and information? Are you serious? What in heaven’s name will neighbors and friends then be believing and talking about with their “open minds”?
Just watched THE SOCIAL DILEMMA and now realize why many of the good people that I know have such diametrically opposing perspectives and such anger disrespect and hate for other opinions.
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You may want to give some serious thought to the possibility, even the probability, that some of the “good people” you know might actually be bad people masquerading as good people. In any event, it’s morally obligatory for rational people to determine which of diametrically opposed perspectives is more objectively valid.
Political parties are a facade of advertising meant to entice the crowd. The purpose of the presentation is to collect resources of boots, wallets, and voices to support power. This visible manifestation of “ Party” is not the heart of the beast—but the fingertips of the puppet operator staging a performance. The concept of a “power behind the throne” is most apt.
I have given that serious thought, before I wrote it.
I may have policy disagreements with some people but they are fundamentally ethical people.
Disbeliveing the news is to hear it, and not accept it as necessarily true, one then must research and talk to others.
You pinged me. Don’t get pissy because I answered. I don’t care what you watched. Frankly the fact that you did watch that shows you’re just as hung up.
I’m not. I can tell by how little effort you put into proving it. You WANT me to be wrong. But you’ve got nothing.
No. Political parties are corporations that use politics to get money. Like any other special interest group, they have no core beliefs, they just want that cash. There is no power behind the throne because there is no throne.
If you or loved ones are active on social media, the video documentary is a must watch. Social media, search engines and propaganda news are far more insidious into manipulating us, our habits, dopamine reward cycles, buying habits, contacts...list goes on.
If you’re addicted to scrolling through social media, your brain is plugged into the matrix, altering reality without you even being aware of it
Frightening.
Now imagine when larger story computers with even more powerful AI come on the scene! Preprogrammed human bots mindlessly following orders will be even easier to create. Elections, protests, riots, social chaos can be orchestrated through such AI.
I’m slowly beginning to believe that the “beast” mentioned in revelation 13 is not a man at all, but a supercomputer, brought to AI life. Evil incarnate. Replication of a human appearing to be alive interacting with the planet and just as Tay turned evil in less than a few hours before they unplugged it, so too would such an AI pseudo-human be...Evil incarnate.
The false prophet creates an “image of the beast and gives it life, forcing the world to worship the image and all who do not worship it are killed”. Technologically completely possible in a very few years.
Be aware, eyes wide open.
Please, please watch the documentary
YOUR comment?
"FEAR FEAR FEAR.
No. Not watching your documentary."
To which I commented;
"you're wrong" (fear, fear, fear)
And your Joe Biden kicked in and you retorted,
I’m not. I can tell by how little effort you put into proving it. You WANT me to be wrong. But you’ve got nothing."
Y'see ... Sheep Whisperer VERY carefully explained HIS/HER reasoning (and I agree with that reasoning), so my "you're wrong" was an affirmation to SW's comment and hoped you might consider listening.
but no, you told ME I put such little effort into "proving it" (I assume the "it" is my accusation of "wrong", in which case ... you were talking to the wrong person.
But the kicker were these words;
"You WANT me to be wrong. But you’ve got nothing"
Which is the EXACT projection the documentary is pointing out because of social media.
Thou art guilty
Wow so you repost the senseless fear crap to show that I was wrong when I said “fear fear fear”. Thanks for proving me right. The post was nothing but fear mongering fnord BS. There’s no careful reasoning in that post, there’s just fear mongering. Heck there’s even a Revelations reference, always a favorite for fear mongering BS.
guess the sheep whisperer got to you. So now we no you’re sheep. And you’ve bought into the FEAR FEAR FEAR. Thus proving me right. Again.
Life is simple...
The U.S. Constitution is the Foundation of our Republic.
We are a Constitutional Representative Republic, not a Democracy.
Our Rights come from Almighty God, not Man.
Nobody owes you a living.
The only good Commie is a dead Commie.
The Constitution is not a Permission Slip.
Almighty God gave everyone Free Will.
Your Rights end at the tip of my Nose and the fold of my Wallet.
Punishment must fit the Crime.
We all have Equal Rights, but we don’t have Special Rights.
Hate is a Motive, it isn’t a Crime.
Put it together.
The words you use to lambast (me, us, the documentary) were mentioned in the promo, not the documentary.
EXACTLY THE PROJECTION THE DOCUMENTARY EXPOSES
so if the promo, which was put together by the same people who made the documentary, is full of crap I should still watch the documentary? That’s just silly. “Hey this commercial sucks, I should buy the product.”
Yeah...you might think that. But that’s not how it works.
How will you know ?
Oh wow, now you’ve got to the “read their about page” portion of wanting a flame war.
Face it. You were wrong. Buh bye
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