“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.


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This entry was written by enjoying autumn, posted on November 5, 2007 at 4:01 pm.

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5 Comments

  1. carlos
    Posted November 5, 2007 at 7:27 pm | Permalink

    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
    Posted November 8, 2007 at 11:32 pm | Permalink

    http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html

    This relates in a sort of reverse way.

  3. speedbird
    Posted November 9, 2007 at 7:34 am | Permalink

    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
    Posted November 9, 2007 at 2:07 pm | Permalink

    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
    Posted November 9, 2007 at 5:42 pm | Permalink

    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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