Hacking your Mind and Carl Sagan's BS detector

[shunka]

HACKING YOUR MIND -

basically we already know that "marketeers" mess with one and target ads to sell stuff

 

This is about how far they have taken it using YOUR surfing, clicking and etc data gleaned off the  interweb .

The "Dark Part" second half shows how the politicians hired the marketeers and

Russkies messed with faceyspace and flooded folks with specifically targeted propoganda

 

 

https://www.pbs.org/video/weapons-of-influence-gpuj68/

HACKING YOUR MIND

Weapons of Influence
09/16/2020 | 55m 56s

The advent of big data has given corporate marketers, social media companies and politicians
the ability to hack your autopilot system in shocking new ways. Learn why the survival of
democracy itself is at stake and how you can protect it.

 

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and Carl Sagan's "BS Detector"

 

an article from his book

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

 

In a chapter titled “The Fine Art of Baloney Detection,” Sagan reflects on the many types of deception to which we’re susceptible — from psychics to religious zealotry to paid product endorsements by scientists, which he held in especially low regard, noting that they “betray contempt for the intelligence of their customers” and “introduce an insidious corruption of popular attitudes about scientific objectivity.” (Cue in PBS’s Joe Hanson on how to read science news.)

 

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-baloney-detection-kit-carl-sagan-s-rules-for-bullshit-busting-and-critical-thinking

 

walk safely

shunka

[Earl Grey]

Just now, shunka said:

HACKING YOUR MIND -

basically we already know that "marketeers" mess with one and target ads to sell stuff

 

This is about how far they have taken it using YOUR surfing, clicking and etc data gleaned off the  interweb .

The "Dark Part" second half shows how the politicians hired the marketeers and

Russkies messed with faceyspace and flooded folks with specifically targeted propoganda

 

 

https://www.pbs.org/video/weapons-of-influence-gpuj68/

HACKING YOUR MIND

Weapons of Influence
09/16/2020 | 55m 56s

The advent of big data has given corporate marketers, social media companies and politicians
the ability to hack your autopilot system in shocking new ways. Learn why the survival of
democracy itself is at stake and how you can protect it.

 

-----

and Carl Sagan's "BS Detector"

 

an article from his book

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

 

In a chapter titled “The Fine Art of Baloney Detection,” Sagan reflects on the many types of deception to which we’re susceptible — from psychics to religious zealotry to paid product endorsements by scientists, which he held in especially low regard, noting that they “betray contempt for the intelligence of their customers” and “introduce an insidious corruption of popular attitudes about scientific objectivity.” (Cue in PBS’s Joe Hanson on how to read science news.)

 

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-baloney-detection-kit-carl-sagan-s-rules-for-bullshit-busting-and-critical-thinking

 

walk safely

shunka

 

I've actually done a lot of research and writing on the perils of big data...my partners and I were ridiculed in the late 2000s and early 2010s, especially as we got off social media in the early 2010s. 

 

Fast forward a few years later and everything we predicted was prophetic, especially for Facebook. 

 

A lot of it ultimately amounts to how Facebook especially is the college mind, the lazy college student mind who never got out of the college mindset of popularity and meeting girls or getting even with exes. What was once the realm of the young adult finding their way in the world has now tainted the global social norms, and homogenization of language--especially Silicon Valley startup culture slang and Americanisms--is made worse by how Facebook talks about opening up the world, but somehow is very happy to place authoritarians like Hun Sen in Cambodia and Myanmar--countries that have 90% of their population using the news feed for their information as opposed to newspapers and blogs, making them especially susceptible to fake news.

 

Let's not forget how authoritarians like Duterte in the Philippines also abuse the cyberlibel act that is so vague that they can turn anyone's rant or a joke into a justification for probable cause to incite insurrection, and have demanded for extradition from countries that they have no formal extradition treaty with such as Taiwan for Facebook status updates criticizing Duterte. Hun Sen of Cambodia has used this multiple times as well to find dissenters in Cambodia, and it has also been very influential in populist politics, especially India, Myanmar, and so on.