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Human Written by a human [0] Imagine, for a moment, a world with no humans. Just machines, bolts and screws, zeros and ones. There is no emotion. There is...
What if we created algorithmic behavior modification software ( social media was one idea) to drive impulses, beliefs, and actions? The machines had a good idea of what humans wanted at this point, and so they put vast green forests and big tall mountains onto the planet; they engineered warm sunsets, and crisp cool rain showers on hot afternoons. Of course, it took some algorithmic tinkering to find the right balance between hardship and beauty (and there is still some internal machine debate about whether the climate change difficulty setting was really necessary).
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