gems, AI, artificial intellegence, pyschology, Epstein files, Bill Gates, Microsoft, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg

When Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook in 2003, he intended for it to be an online destination where people could connect with friends that would, in its own small way, make the world a better place. Just kidding—as my colleague, Nick Bilton, reminds us, back in Zuck’s Harvard days, The Facebook, as it was then known, was little more than a bizarre social experiment in which Zuckerberg got to see how many people would blindly turn over their information to him. “I have over 4,000 e-mails, pictures, addresses, SNS,” Zuckerberg bragged to a friend. “People just submitted it. I don’t know why. They ‘trust me.’ Dumb fucks.” And 15 years later, not much has changed! One of the reasons Facebook is in such a steaming pile of shit at the moment is because the way in which Cambridge Analytica got its hands on millions of people’s information that they then used to nefarious ends was completely legitimate. There was no data breach: Facebook set things up so firms like Cambridge could simply help themselves (the company claims it has since fixed things).