82,891
edits
Electric monk: Difference between revisions
no edit summary
Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
||
| Line 30: | Line 30: | ||
Now if I can have ''one'' [[avatar]] emulating my human browsing habits — I can have ''one thousand''. Each of us can. And if the technology works<ref>If it doesn’t — by no means certain to — then nor does The Man’s, and this phase of our cultural existence will pass on by itself.</ref> then the forthcoming apocalyptic battle will not be between ''us'' and ''The Man'', but between ''our'' technology and ''The Man’s'', and since, [[Q.E.D.]], The Man’s technology has no way of telling ''us'' from ''our avatars'', ''we have the advantage''. Especially since our [[avatar]]s ''don’t'' have to emulate ''our'' behaviour at all. We can obstreperously configure them to emulate ''something else''. | Now if I can have ''one'' [[avatar]] emulating my human browsing habits — I can have ''one thousand''. Each of us can. And if the technology works<ref>If it doesn’t — by no means certain to — then nor does The Man’s, and this phase of our cultural existence will pass on by itself.</ref> then the forthcoming apocalyptic battle will not be between ''us'' and ''The Man'', but between ''our'' technology and ''The Man’s'', and since, [[Q.E.D.]], The Man’s technology has no way of telling ''us'' from ''our avatars'', ''we have the advantage''. Especially since our [[avatar]]s ''don’t'' have to emulate ''our'' behaviour at all. We can obstreperously configure them to emulate ''something else''. | ||
So, if we each deploy a thousand [[ | So, if we each deploy a thousand [[avatar]]s to randomly browse, like and share content ''at random'', constrained only by the requirement that an [[avatar]]’s browsing habits should emulate as nearly as possible the behaviour of ''some'' human, even if not necessarily its host’s, then all that wondrous aggregated data that the FANGS have on us ''isn’t on us''. It is worthless, meaningless, hypothetical. | ||
[[Systems theory]], folks: the same way [[algorithm]]s can extract profound insight from [[data]] they can inject ineffable absurdity into it. | [[Systems theory]], folks: the same way [[algorithm]]s can extract profound insight from [[data]] they can inject ineffable absurdity into it. | ||