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‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. (www.theatlantic.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

What? Intelligent people get fooled all the time. The NXIVM cult was made up mostly of reasonably intelligent women. Shit that motherfucker selected for intelligent women.

You're not immune. Even if you were, you're incredibly dependent on people of average to lower intelligence on a daily basis. Our planet runs on the average intelligence.