John; August 9, 2021

WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.320 Hey, what's up? It's John. Welcome back to Emo Dojo for Monday 2 00:00:06.360 --> 00:00:12.470 August nine. This is the ninth day of my daily episode challenge for August, 3 00:00:12.669 --> 00:00:17.269 so thanks for hanging in there. I know they they're they all can't 4 00:00:17.269 --> 00:00:21.940 be gems, but you know whatever, I'm getting in here getting it done, 5 00:00:22.019 --> 00:00:27.140 doing the editing, uploading all that Shit, so I that counts for 6 00:00:27.379 --> 00:00:32.740 something. I was just looking at article about twitter. Right, I like 7 00:00:32.899 --> 00:00:37.409 twitter. I like it's nice and concise. Just gotta say what you got 8 00:00:37.530 --> 00:00:41.530 to say and get off. Often it seems like a Shit River. It's 9 00:00:41.609 --> 00:00:46.170 nothing but a bunch of garbage flowing by and you can comment on it and 10 00:00:46.329 --> 00:00:50.359 get stinky yourself if you want, but it's a good way to craft headlines 11 00:00:50.399 --> 00:00:55.240 and things like that. I got kicked off twitter for a week because I 12 00:00:55.479 --> 00:01:00.600 think some terrorists got mad when I said something like shoot him if they get 13 00:01:00.600 --> 00:01:03.950 out of line. Yeah, so I had to delete that post and I 14 00:01:04.030 --> 00:01:10.310 got I can't use any of the buttons on twitter for a week. Wow. 15 00:01:10.989 --> 00:01:15.109 So here's what twitter did over the weekend. They were at Def Con, 16 00:01:15.269 --> 00:01:19.060 which is a hacker conference. They held some breakout session and had some 17 00:01:19.140 --> 00:01:25.859 hackers just kind of test their system and go through their photocropping algorithms to see 18 00:01:25.859 --> 00:01:30.579 if they can find any any errors, oh missions or any fuckery generally speaking. 19 00:01:32.219 --> 00:01:38.450 And of course they did so, not only seeing the past. Their 20 00:01:38.489 --> 00:01:42.329 Algorithm, their photocropping out agorithm, was racist. It would always crop the 21 00:01:42.450 --> 00:01:46.129 white people, leave the white people in and crop out the black people. 22 00:01:46.730 --> 00:01:53.439 Well, they also found out it's a just ablest and Islamophobic. So twitter 23 00:01:53.719 --> 00:01:57.760 will crop you out of you have white hair or gray hair, if you 24 00:01:57.879 --> 00:02:02.549 have a head scarf and if you're low. I kind of get the low 25 00:02:02.709 --> 00:02:08.990 one. You if it's cropping faces in, the majority of the faces are 26 00:02:09.030 --> 00:02:12.509 in the center. I can see why I would crop there. But it's 27 00:02:12.550 --> 00:02:19.740 saying that it's ablest because that will exclude somebody sitting in a wheelchair. So 28 00:02:20.099 --> 00:02:23.379 that's the only one I have a question about. The other ones are weird 29 00:02:23.379 --> 00:02:29.020 right, like head scarf. Huh? Yeah, it'll leave you out if 30 00:02:29.060 --> 00:02:32.009 you got a head scarf on or gray hair. So why was the mentioning 31 00:02:32.090 --> 00:02:38.729 twitter? Well, not because I got kicked off because of the algorithms. 32 00:02:38.810 --> 00:02:44.439 I was one of the chapters in you've all Harari's book twenty one ideas for 33 00:02:44.759 --> 00:02:49.800 the twenty first century. He dedicated one whole chapter to the algorithms. And 34 00:02:50.039 --> 00:02:53.120 the creepy thing is not to me that robots are going to rule the world 35 00:02:53.159 --> 00:02:58.789 or anything like that. It's that you get pigeonholed into the wrong thing in 36 00:02:58.909 --> 00:03:02.990 life. Did you ever see the B movie was Seinfeldt? I love that 37 00:03:04.110 --> 00:03:08.870 movie, but it also shows that kind of regimented idea that you can be 38 00:03:08.990 --> 00:03:12.270 this or you can be that or whatever, and you stick with it and 39 00:03:12.430 --> 00:03:15.379 that's all you get to do. And that's what the Algorithms in social media 40 00:03:15.500 --> 00:03:23.060 do right now. They're forming opinions of you and reinforcing those opinions back into 41 00:03:23.060 --> 00:03:28.409 a loop. And so what Ha are you warns about? Mostly is that 42 00:03:28.569 --> 00:03:30.770 if you don't know what you want to be in life, if you aren't 43 00:03:30.810 --> 00:03:35.050 solid on your plan for the future, and who is really right? A 44 00:03:35.370 --> 00:03:38.129 lot of people don't really know what they want to do next week, let 45 00:03:38.129 --> 00:03:40.879 alone next year. But if you don't have some concept of what you are 46 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:47.120 and your your what you offer to life, the algorithms are going to start 47 00:03:47.159 --> 00:03:51.800 putting you in wrong categories and one day you won't be able to get out 48 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:54.080 of it. Your choices will be limited. You won't see the same job 49 00:03:54.199 --> 00:04:00.150 offerings, you won't see the same house offerings or food options. This sounds 50 00:04:00.229 --> 00:04:04.789 like that's crazy talk, but it's already happening. Imagine self driving cars of 51 00:04:04.870 --> 00:04:09.870 the future that refused to let you get off the freeway at a particular exit 52 00:04:09.990 --> 00:04:16.779 because your credit score isn't high enough. Imagine ambulance lowering your priority because you 53 00:04:16.860 --> 00:04:23.939 haven't paid your healthcare bill. So now that everything's connected, the algorithms means 54 00:04:24.019 --> 00:04:27.889 something right. They're always working and they're always trying to find a place for 55 00:04:27.930 --> 00:04:30.610 us. We can't just swim around in the spectrum anymore. It's the is 56 00:04:30.649 --> 00:04:35.089 a binary thing that's trying to make us either or so to that end, 57 00:04:36.329 --> 00:04:40.800 all I'm saying is think about what you want to be and contribute to the 58 00:04:40.959 --> 00:04:48.720 planet as life goes on, and be careful and what you choose, because 59 00:04:48.839 --> 00:04:56.350 the algorithms are going to reinforce that. And if you haven't chosen, maybe 60 00:04:56.509 --> 00:04:59.910 stay away from the algorithms as much as possible. I know it's hard. 61 00:04:59.910 --> 00:05:02.709 If you got ATM card or Cell Phone or whatever, that you're already you're 62 00:05:02.709 --> 00:05:09.459 already being tracked and cataloged and labeled in quantified. So to the extent that 63 00:05:09.579 --> 00:05:13.579 you want some kind of free will, you better start thinking of those choices 64 00:05:13.740 --> 00:05:16.779 now so that you can get the algorithms to work in your favor. I 65 00:05:17.100 --> 00:05:23.050 think those people that do decide what they want to do with themselves will will 66 00:05:23.089 --> 00:05:27.730 benefit greatly because the algorithms will actually help. They can't. They can't but 67 00:05:28.009 --> 00:05:32.569 help if you've already chosen that thing that you're into. So that's why it 68 00:05:32.649 --> 00:05:39.439 comes back to twitter and their algorithms being so racist and ablest and agest. 69 00:05:40.040 --> 00:05:43.839 They're already working against us, the algorithms, that is, not the people 70 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:46.199 that made the algorithms. They did it unwittingly. The thing is, if 71 00:05:46.199 --> 00:05:50.470 you train ai with your own personal biases, the AI is going to have 72 00:05:50.589 --> 00:05:55.230 your own personal biases. So if you got a bunch of white dudes coding 73 00:05:55.310 --> 00:06:00.509 the AI, guess what ductor. So, if you want to read more, 74 00:06:00.949 --> 00:06:06.300 just I think it's on. It's just fucking Google Twitter Racist Algorithm and 75 00:06:06.459 --> 00:06:10.699 go to the new section. You can read that article and of course I 76 00:06:10.740 --> 00:06:15.779 Highly Recommend Harari's Book Twenty One ideas for the twenty one century. I hope 77 00:06:15.779 --> 00:06:31.410 you have an excellent day. I'll talk to you tomorrow. And now back 78 00:06:31.410 --> 00:06:31.850 to the wall.