Silicon Valley is not in the ad business; it’s in the human farming, simulation, and manipulation business.
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@aral you could THINK you have a copy of me (which is even more dangerous than having an actual copy of me, under circumstances) -
@josefbarta Right on.
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@aral finally i can talk to myself in public! - End of conversation
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@aral it brings up an interesting discussion about sharing data when it's useful but preventing it's long term storage with whom it's shared -
@aral example, online shopping, I want it to know my sizes when I am browsing items but I don't want them spamming me with emails afterwards -
@Cyberlane Indeed; it’s a question of who decides what to reveal and for what purpose/duration. It’s about ownership/control of the self. -
@aral big problem is if I give you read access to my information, what's stopping you from saving that in your system to "cache" it perf? -
@aral a big question of trust comes into play, and the fact is, you can trust a person, but you cannot trust a business. -
@aral people care about people (sometimes), whilst a business cares about making money and not much else.
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@aral Problem is: the data could be, in principle, impossible to gather due to quantum effects once you start dealing with my electrons. -
@aral But hey, Facebook and Google would still give it a go, right? -
@Liggi Indeed; but they don’t need your body—everything else about you that makes you who you are (in realtime) is more than enough ;) -
@aral I guess "enough" depends on what they are trying to do! I imagine a superintelligence wouldn't need much data to make a facade of me. -
@aral They wouldn't need to actually recreate me, just recreate something that is convincingly "me" enough to a dumb human. :D -
@aral Like a markov chain on super-steroids.
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