Michelle420
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I was really high, more than normal and I decided to chill and watch farm-aid on tv. Anyway, Willie Nelson was on pretty cool he is 86 years old and still rockin. They had Tanya Tucker on and she seemed cool. It took me back to the 80's cuz I saw John Cougar Mellencamp. I digress sorry, anyway Neil Young comes on and he's 74 yrs old and he's jamming with Particle Kid and some other band.
So he starts singing new songs I haven't really listened to about Monsanto and GMO's and Algorithms making 10 yr old watch porn.....I was like HUH? What's this about algorithms and Monsanto and creepy shit. I was thinking Neil looks like he's halfway gone while willie Nelsons seems like he's still here.
Here's the gist of what he said in a song at farm aid that I took from an interview he gave.
Smoke Some Weed, Take a Walk, and Read This Interview With Neil Young
Well I started looking up Algorithm
Defining Algorithms—a Conversational Explainer
Exerpt:
I stayed up and read about computer vision and machine vision blah blah blah, and zoned back into Neil talking about not eating processed food and buying from a local farmer. What a fucking Luddite eh? Wow and he's been doing this for years. I mean many of his hippy friends went corporate in the 80's and then Zen in the 90's and in the 2000's went into technology age full force. How is it that he's still so activist? I really was entranced and recorded it to watch sober and I still don't understand Neil. But he's sexy scorpio and the Scorpios have made fucking with peoples head an art, all that social engineering they turn it back on the culture so weird. You Scorpios are Weird!
So he starts singing new songs I haven't really listened to about Monsanto and GMO's and Algorithms making 10 yr old watch porn.....I was like HUH? What's this about algorithms and Monsanto and creepy shit. I was thinking Neil looks like he's halfway gone while willie Nelsons seems like he's still here.
Here's the gist of what he said in a song at farm aid that I took from an interview he gave.
This is all a very, very dark thing that's happening. And people are starting to feel it. I don't like people logging into me [the Archives] from Facebook. If they're going to log in from Facebook, I want to give them the option of reading something about Facebook when they arrive, so they know where they came from. And I still use Facebook because my users, my fans, people who want to know what we're doing, we tell them what we're doing. But you have to go to our place, and you don't have any of the rules, and we're not going to track you and use you. Once you leave that area, you're in a safe area, which is our place. So, we want people to know that we care about that. I mean, when you have algorithms that encourage children under 10 to be into porn...
Smoke Some Weed, Take a Walk, and Read This Interview With Neil Young
Well I started looking up Algorithm
Defining Algorithms—a Conversational Explainer
Exerpt:
Domingos’ Master Algorithm, Slate’s David Auerbach notes that “even within computer science, machine learning is notably opaque.” But it’s also increasingly central to the ways that we live, making it all the more important to disperse that fog. Part of the issue, though, is that machine-learning algorithms are effectively programming themselves, meaning that they can sometimes be unpredictable, or even slightly alien. Their operations are sometimes obscure even to those who originally created them!
Not everyone. Security researcher Adam Elkus, for one, has defended algorithms, arguing that most of the issues we identify with them are social rather than computational. The problem isn’t that algorithms are opaque black boxes, but that our entire system is bureaucratic. He argues that algorithms are only as invasive, restrictive, or otherwise troublesome as the social context that they support. The philosopher Michel Foucault described power as a sort of distributed force, one that derives from the way we internalize norms and expectations rather than from the dictates of presidents and kings. When we talk about the power of algorithms, we’re arguably identifying a similar operation—not the power of an individual actor who knows too much, but the power of a system to which we’ve already submitted.
I stayed up and read about computer vision and machine vision blah blah blah, and zoned back into Neil talking about not eating processed food and buying from a local farmer. What a fucking Luddite eh? Wow and he's been doing this for years. I mean many of his hippy friends went corporate in the 80's and then Zen in the 90's and in the 2000's went into technology age full force. How is it that he's still so activist? I really was entranced and recorded it to watch sober and I still don't understand Neil. But he's sexy scorpio and the Scorpios have made fucking with peoples head an art, all that social engineering they turn it back on the culture so weird. You Scorpios are Weird!