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Re:Cambridge Analytica: The Data That Turned the World Upsid... by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @03:05PM (#13544529)
In addition to what riprowan said, if you are perfectly logical and rational, but I can control your input data, I can control your conclusions.
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Re:Cambridge Analytica: The Data That Turned the World Upsid... by ordu on Thursday February 02, 2017 @11:33AM (#13551803)
Really? What you know about my consclusions? How can you check that you control them? By looking at my behaviour? Ha-ha. How you can control them if you have no precise knowledge about them and processes leading to them? Oh... And how can you control my input data, if I'm not reading your ads?
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