Friday, April 11, 2014

Confusopoly..............................................

Scott Adams on "How the Robots Will Take Over" in 7 easy steps:

Step one in the computer's mission to control the environment is moving all money into a digital currency that humans can't fully understand and computers can manipulate. This is similar to how cellphone companies use complexity to prevent consumers from comparing products, also known as a confusopoly. The first post-singularity computer would recognize the pattern and its success and presumably borrow the idea.

As excerpted from this blog post

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