Author: Shuimurran
This article is selected from Shuimurran's new book "Awakening in the World"
In the past two years, it has become increasingly difficult for everyone!
Business owners, businessmen, and store owners are getting more and more difficult; deliverymen, couriers, and online ride-hailing drivers are getting more and more difficult; internet celebrities, anchors, and self-media people are getting more and more difficult;
Finally, everyone is trapped in the "algorithm"! algorithm is trying to "taste" human beings. The struggle between people and "algorithms" is a battle that determines the future and destiny of mankind.
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So, what is an algorithm?
What is "algorithm"? Nowadays, almost everyone cannot live without major Internet platforms, such as Douyin , Taobao, Meituan , Ctrip , etc. Each platform has its own set of "algorithms", which can also be called "intelligent recommendation", which will be the Five Finger Mountain of Humanity. Behind the information of
is personal data, and behind the data is " algorithm ". The platform can rely on this collected big data and combined with the "algorithm", which can accurately grasp everyone's behavior and habits, thereby manipulating us invisibly.
" Proceedings of the American Academy of Sciences " pointed out:
If you like it more than 10 times in Facebook, Facebook will know you better than your colleagues;
If you above If you like more than 70 times, Facebook will know you better than your dormitory roommates;
If the total number of likes on it exceeds 150 times, Facebook will know you better than your parents, brothers and sisters;
As long as you interact enough on it, that is, you provide enough data, the algorithm will eventually understand you more than you.
This is the terrible algorithm!
It constantly collects your data, interprets you in a high-dimensional way, looks through you, examines you, knows what you like, wants, and wants, and then helps you set a good behavior route, and completely controls you in the dark.
people's emotions/emotions/thoughts, and even culture and values are all behind a series of data. However, before we controlled the graininess of data, we were not able to accurately detect and control these things. However, with the strength of algorithms and computing power, these will be cracked, so human emotions/emotions/values, as well as intuition, inspiration, desires, etc. can be manipulated.
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When these things of human beings are manipulated, human decisions are easily manipulated, because with the loss of human ability to think independently, human behavior will become more and more irrational in the future. Everything is emotions. As long as people's emotions can be manipulated, their decisions can be manipulated.
As long as we are using mobile phones, using cars and other hardware, our biological data is collected by major APPs and platforms. They can not only grasp our interests/hobbies and habits, but also monitor our body temperature, blood pressure and heart rate changes at any time (relying on the contact between fingers and keyboard), so as to deeply control everyone's emotions, needs and desires.
We laugh, cry, get angry, curious, etc., and we will be perceived by them. The key is that they can not only predict our feelings, but also manipulate our feelings, and then sell their things to us, including goods/thinks/even votes.
As an ordinary person, we will have no secrets. You think that everything you do is your freedom and privacy, but in the eyes of others, you are like we are looking at an ant .
In the future, when we open the mobile phone, the platform will immediately obtain your physical data through the movements of your mobile phone, including changes in body temperature, blood pressure and heart rate. The platform will immediately lock on your preferences and tags, and simulate your psychological change curve. What you like and need, you will push whatever you want to you.
This is a very clever recommendation mechanism. It infinitely echoes your inner hobbies and makes you indulge in infinitely. In their eyes, each of us is transparent, and all our whereabouts are controlled and let them manipulate.
Taobao knows what you want to buy, WeChat knows what you are talking about, Douyin knows what you are looking at, Meituan knows what you want to eat, Baidu knows what you are searching for, Didi know where you want to go...
In the future, each of us will be transparent, our destiny will no longer be in the hands of God, but in the hands of these big platforms. Therefore, if our data is allowed to be controlled by these platforms, it is a very terrible thing!
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The people in the future are only divided into two types:
The first type of people are 99% of people. They are all living beings, they are "algorithm" type, they are completely led by algorithms, and they completely give up their independent thinking ability, watch short videos every day, watch live broadcasts, play games, and act as the melon-eating crowd of society. Such people are just consumers of social resources, useless people, and ignorant people. Their only contribution to society is to adapt to the algorithm mechanism and become part of big data, like walking zombies waiting to be harvested.
The second type of people is 1%, and they are very few. The algorithm cannot understand them, and they have no interest in the things they push. On the contrary, they can control the algorithm . Ordinary people listen to the algorithm, and the algorithm listens to them. They use algorithms to formulate new rules of the game for the world, while supervising everyone's whereabouts, so that they do not offend each other and be content with their own self-righteousness. There will be fewer and fewer people like
. It is precisely these very few people who can become the top level of the human food chain and lead and dominate everything.
These people are the masters of the future world and are new species formed by human evolution . Therefore, the biggest difference between people in the future is no longer the difference in class, but the difference in different species. A small number of people will evolve into the God of another group of people.
This is the "new era of slavery" of human beings: the "first type of people" are transparent and naked in the eyes of the "second type of people". You think you have your own privacy, seem to be free and have thoughts, but in fact, they have been manipulated by the platform, just like God manipulating human beings, the platform treats you like you treat an ant.
Only in two situations can a "slavery relationship" be formed between people. Either it is a primitive society with very backward technology or it is a very developed technology today. We went around and back again, this is the opposite of everything.
behind the data is algorithm . Behind the algorithm is power . In the future, those who have "big data" will have absolute power, they will become godly people, and have the ability of "shen magic trick" .
And the data begins to be concentrated in the hands of a very small number of people, human beings will split into two classes: .01% of people have big data, there are proletarians, and the remaining 99.99 people will become proletarian controlled by data.
From a political perspective, the superior will master all the data of the subordinates, so as to supervise the subordinates like a transparent person; from a commercial perspective, the platform will master all the data of the merchant/individual, and can clearly see each person's consumption tendency, thereby maximizing its own interests.
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The relationship between the algorithm and human beings is divided into three stages:
first step, the algorithm is our tool, we can ask it any questions we have;
second step, the algorithm is our indicator light, it will tell you Tell us the general direction and principles;
The third step is that the algorithm becomes our God, so we simply give up thinking and listen to everything;
Overall, the "algorithm" design principles of major platforms are similar, and there are mainly three main principles:
First: To make every "individual" run around day and night, we must constantly receive orders, broadcast, and create content, just like "the silkworm will not end until the dead silk is dead."
Second: A certain "individual" is not allowed to grow stronger. Once a certain "individual" is strong enough to compete with the platform, it is necessary to cut off the source of the cause and then support other individuals;
Third: Continuously create income gaps (the gap between the rich and the poor) between individuals. When the income gap reaches a certain level, we must narrow the income gap and support those weak individuals.
In other words, everyone is a pawn of the platform. The platform will give every "individual" a bite of food, but it only gives you a bite of food. No matter how hard you work and talented you are, you can only eat at most one bite of food.
This is the inevitable development of science and technology and the inevitable development of human society.
"Algorithm" is a self-deceiving technological innovation in humans. It is to do everything possible to torture ourselves and tie us firmly.
People are born free, but shackles are everywhere.
Heaven and earth are not kind, and treat all things as straw dogs.
If we do not control the algorithm and data , soon someone will use our data to calculate our preferences/behavior predictions/consumption tendencies, and then constantly sell various products and even ideas to us, and we become other people's puppets without knowing it.
The future struggle of human beings is the confrontation between " algorithm " and " mental method ". Why? Because the algorithm is the platform calculates our behavioral rules through our behavior data , which in turn makes us addicted/unexposed/repeated consumption, thus putting us under control.
Then what is " mind method "? "Mind method" is a comprehensive ability of everyone's culture/cognition/cultivation/self-discipline/values, etc. The Mind method is anti-algorithm. The Mind method can prevent us from getting addicted and strive to keep us awake and thinking.
Due to the continuous progress of the "algorithm", it will definitely defeat 99% of people's mental methods. Only 1% of people can defeat algorithms through self-discipline/learning/improvement, etc., and they will lead the progress of society.
The most rare thing in life is "sober in the world"
The master is profound and relaxed, and the mediocre are superficial and painful!
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