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by HerculePoirot 998 days ago
It can be engineered. It has already begun. Whenever you experience some kind of synchronicity in an ad that looks as if it had read your mind, because you thought about the same thing a few hours before, the algorithm is optimizing what may be relevant to you – relevancy of which you know almost nothing in the bigger picture of the life process you're embedded in.

Give AI a few centuries of development and integration and we may live in a providential future.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-proof-shows-that-expander...

> Six years ago, Afonso Bandeira and Shuyang Ling were attempting to come up with a better way to discern clusters in enormous data sets when they stumbled into a surreal world. Ling realized that the equations they’d come up with were, unexpectedly, a perfect match for a mathematical model of spontaneous synchronization. Spontaneous synchronization is a phenomenon in which oscillators, which might take the form of pendulums, springs, human heart cells or fireflies, end up moving in lockstep without any central coordination mechanism.