Cambridge Analytica's financiers somehow got hold of a simulation game designed to warn about machine-learning's corruption of politics

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/06/26/machine-learning-president.html

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it’s a bizarre and ironic form of validation,

Yes, like robbing a people of their Democracy, funny as shit.

[note sadly the sarcasm]

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We have no clue how they got the rules

They’re the Mercer family, so however they got it sleaze and shady dealing were involved.

This game is more appropriate to the Mercers:

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Layer upon layer of meta. We can’t just vote any more, can we?

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We need to go back to counting colored stones.

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I tried that too. Trump won anyway.

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How about inscribed potsherds?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Ostraka_against_Megacles.jpg(image larger than 4 MB)

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Then throwing them at Trump.

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