Yeah – I think a lot of people who took even just one stats course are in a similar boat. Though I think it’s a bit easier to understand the shift if you frame it within the context of Social Media sites controlling the population’s opinions / propaganda.
Most govts understand at this point, internally at least, that if a message is repeated often, loudly, and it saturates a people’s media, they start to believe it / agree with it. The survey, and the reporting storm surrounding a survey, isn’t so much about showing people an accurate representation of how people’s viewpoints vary, but rather a vehicle for govts/companies to tell people how to think. Sites like Facebook don’t so much as sell advertising, as they sell the ability to socially engineer its users to like your product / political stance: make enough general noise about a niche position, and people will think it’s a majority opinion.
Where the bots get used in the workflow, isn’t really that big of a concern.
Valid. Media Manipulation is the name of the game right now, but that’s so inefficient. You throw out a bunch of propaganda, and hope something gets traction.
Soon, Data Manipulation will be more important. They’ll start tracking all your date points, and soon they’ll find something they can manipulate you over. They’ll find some obscure crime to leverage you with, like a wrong statement on a Federal form interpreted as a deliberate lie, rather than a confused wrong answer. Or they’ll identify patterns, and create laws to make those patterns a crime, and get you on that.
They’ll threaten your family, job, your healthcare, your money, your home, your freedom, and they’ll eventually get you to dance to their tune.
Yeah – I think a lot of people who took even just one stats course are in a similar boat. Though I think it’s a bit easier to understand the shift if you frame it within the context of Social Media sites controlling the population’s opinions / propaganda.
Most govts understand at this point, internally at least, that if a message is repeated often, loudly, and it saturates a people’s media, they start to believe it / agree with it. The survey, and the reporting storm surrounding a survey, isn’t so much about showing people an accurate representation of how people’s viewpoints vary, but rather a vehicle for govts/companies to tell people how to think. Sites like Facebook don’t so much as sell advertising, as they sell the ability to socially engineer its users to like your product / political stance: make enough general noise about a niche position, and people will think it’s a majority opinion.
Where the bots get used in the workflow, isn’t really that big of a concern.
Valid. Media Manipulation is the name of the game right now, but that’s so inefficient. You throw out a bunch of propaganda, and hope something gets traction.
Soon, Data Manipulation will be more important. They’ll start tracking all your date points, and soon they’ll find something they can manipulate you over. They’ll find some obscure crime to leverage you with, like a wrong statement on a Federal form interpreted as a deliberate lie, rather than a confused wrong answer. Or they’ll identify patterns, and create laws to make those patterns a crime, and get you on that.
They’ll threaten your family, job, your healthcare, your money, your home, your freedom, and they’ll eventually get you to dance to their tune.