>>368798 Robert Mercer question
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>>368779 ( y o u )
Longish + excellent article on Mercer.
theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/26/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage
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Robert Mercer: the big data billionaire waging war on mainstream media
Use of data analytics to influence elections.
Social media.
Trending terms.
Details about individual voter behavior from Facebook profiling.
Article calls it a propaganda network.
"He started his career at IBM, where he made what the Association for Computational Linguistics called “revolutionary” breakthroughs in language processing – a science that went on to be key in developing today’s AI – and later became joint CEO of Renaissance Technologies, a hedge fund that makes its money by using algorithms to model and trade on the financial markets."
((This would be the traditional computer-science definition of AI – programs that perform extremely sophisticated data mining and machine learning, training neutral networks to recognize patterns – rather than the more exotic and less well accepted sense of a 'sentient program')).
Mercer funded Breitbart news
Reported to have a $10m stake in Cambridge Analytica, a small data analytics company.
"On its website, Cambridge Analytica makes the astonishing boast that it has psychological profiles based on 5,000 separate pieces of data on 220 million American"
Computer scientist Aleksandr Kogan: “It’s no exaggeration to say that minds can be changed. Behaviour can be predicted and controlled. I find it incredibly scary. I really do. Because nobody has really followed through on the possible consequences of all this. People don’t know it’s happening to them. Their attitudes are being changed behind their backs.” …
Long article, recommended.
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