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“Spam” As A Classification of Consciousness



At some point in the not-too-distant future, there is a very real possibility that intelligent algorithms will spontaneously determine that *your* configuration of consciousness, as detected by your data patterns and user behaviors, is in fact best classified as “spam” and should be eliminated wholesale, or at least prevented from reaching its destination.







5 Reader Responses

  1. carlos Says:
    November 5th, 2007 at 7:27 pm

    hey, great blog!

    this is happening already

    intelligent algorithms aren’t limited to cyberspace

    we are purposefully quarantined (for as long as we serve a purpose)

    enlarge your penis

  2. Julia Says:
    November 8th, 2007 at 11:32 pm

    http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html

    This relates in a sort of reverse way.

  3. speedbird Says:
    November 9th, 2007 at 7:34 am

    Julia -

    Crazy site! Er, isn’t that the plot of the matrix? Humans kept alive just as power sources for the Machine?…

  4. Tim Boucher Says:
    November 9th, 2007 at 2:07 pm

    I think humans are actually “kept alive” as novelty engines, random number generators. Although some of us are better at generating random numbers than others…

  5. carlos Says:
    November 9th, 2007 at 5:42 pm

    14

    Random is now a derogatory term:

    I was so drunk I hooked up with some random guy and now I hate myself.

    Oh, that is so, like, random!

    Whasupwidat?



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