Google’s Selfish Ledger Reveals Social Engineering Ambitions

Google is an explicitly ideological entity, known to fire employees for expressing even centrist opinions where only an ultra-left viewpoint is allowed. It has tremendous leverage, being able to an alarming extent to determine what is seen and what is not seen on the Internet. If knowledge is power, Google’s possession of vast amounts of data on us makes it a rival to the federal government. Given this context, try to watch this leaked internal Google video about social engineering without shuddering in horror:

See The Verge for more information. The leaked video was made by Nick Foster…

Foster envisions a future where “the notion of a goal-driven ledger becomes more palatable” and “suggestions may be converted not by the user but by the ledger itself.” This is where the Black Mirror undertones come to the fore, with the ledger actively seeking to fill gaps in its knowledge and even selecting data-harvesting products to buy that it thinks may appeal to the user. The example given in the video is a bathroom scale because the ledger doesn’t yet know how much its user weighs. The video then takes a further turn toward anxiety-inducing sci-fi, imagining that the ledger may become so astute as to propose and 3D-print its own designs. Welcome home, Dave, I built you a scale.

Foster’s vision of the ledger goes beyond a tool for self-improvement. The system would be able to “plug gaps in its knowledge and refine its model of human behavior” — not just your particular behavior or mine, but that of the entire human species.

Where ambition is concerned, totalitarians of the past were pikers compared to Google’s social engineers.

Whoever writes the code, rules the future. Almost exclusively, militant moonbats write the code. Silicon Valley has little tolerance for anyone else.

On a tip from Stormfax.

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