> > What happens when our mentors start making suggestions? Do you think that same data could be used to find the most efficient manner to shift your opinion? How deeply does the ranking of links affect your judgement about a subject? Are these new questions to you, or have you simply been holding your hands over your ears?
> None of these ideas are new. You're saying absolutely nothing that hasn't been said thousands of times before, and you're saying it much, much worse.
Maybe not new, but I think this may be the first time I've thought that anything other than a godlike AI may have enough foreknowledge to usefully manipulate our view of reality through carefully curated content presentation.
I think we're really just a bit of research and applied knowledge away from the beginning of this, if we haven't already arrived.
> None of these ideas are new. You're saying absolutely nothing that hasn't been said thousands of times before, and you're saying it much, much worse.
Maybe not new, but I think this may be the first time I've thought that anything other than a godlike AI may have enough foreknowledge to usefully manipulate our view of reality through carefully curated content presentation.
I think we're really just a bit of research and applied knowledge away from the beginning of this, if we haven't already arrived.