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ML aims to adapt beyond predicting machine abnormalities and as far as predicting the human abnormalities interacting with it.

Surveillance capitalism does 3 things
1) insists on extracting user data
2) shifts earnings towards the company, away from employees
3) extracts and exploits every user interaction for profit

ML aims to adapt beyond predicting machine abnormalities and as far as predicting the human abnormalities interacting with it

ML aims to adapt beyond predicting machine abnormalities and as far as predicting the human abnormalities interacting with it

Totalitarianism (1984) causes social influence vs instrumentarianism (FB) from outside in

Behaviour modification - tuning, herding and conditioning to elude awareness

Will is the organ of the future and memory is our mental organ for the past

Pokemon Go is a tool, owner by Google Maps founder, that can herd people to "sponsored stores" and map poorly known areas

Surveillance capitalism is dependent on human incapability to consider wider options which gives room for "tuning" and "herding" of human behaviour. Facebook has published studies where they exposure users to negative posts and influence their posting behaviour. Not held to same "Common Law! as scientists with these experiments!

Surveillance capitalism is dependent on human incapability to consider wider options which gives room for "tuning" and "herding" of human behaviour

Cambridge analytica is one example of many where feelings are recast as raw material for analysis and better predicting