Saw and replied to old thread, but I feel like this is too big of a find.
E*rats https://youtu.be/lRV6PXB6QLk?t=3m59s
about 4 minutes into the video he talks about an algorithm that may have laid him off because of an equation based on his age and how much he made at the time..
Yeah, there's been a lot of buzz about Big E. You want to know what I think?
I think it's just a simple compilation of the sets of rules about when/where to fire employees for maximum cost effectiveness and efficiency, but averaged together. Like how you hire a tax company to "do your taxes" and they really just run it through their computer and have their employees check it over? This algorithm is farmed out to major companies, who then decide how much to trust it: do you just let it act as a consultant, or go full evil overlord and allow it to actively fire employees it deems superfluous?
Now think: you're the developer of this system, you keep it maintained...it'd be a shitstorm if it went public. So, how do you keep it from going public?
The U.S. has an obsession with work ethic, we always have since the earliest days of Irish immigrants and all that shit. We also, as a society, tend to view poor people, homeless, jobless, and other disenfranchised as various flavors of crazy, right?
So, what better way to silence employees who discover this system, than to fire them? That's like 90% of your dirty work done right there. Who the fuck is going to believe some guy who gets fired, and says he was fired to keep a conspiracy secret?
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This is also clearly related to a consistent pattern of music being deleted from the internet. Remember KFC Murder Chicks? They mentioned some kind of vague distrust of the Post Office on their Tumblr. Now, their Tumblr is still up, but it's gone dark since then, and all of a sudden their music is getting very hard to find after that, being wiped off of various websites.
I think this, more than anything, highlights how Big E works, and how deeply it's rooted into the internet, which is where shit gets very scary. Big E probably determined that their "job" is music, which led it to delete their music using DMCA takedown notices. This shows that if it's not already an outright component of Youtube, it's definitely capable of interfacing/speaking with Youtube's copyright-detecting system.
