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Mind reading phone

 
very unnerved
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06/01/2016 12:57 PM
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Mind reading phone
Last night I read the thread about Facebook eavesdropping on conversations and the subsequent comments.

Today I was online checking out spaceweather and saw that Venus and the sun were going to be in conjunction. I did a mental calculation and remembered that a friend of mine is a Gemini and should be having a bday so I picked up my phone(a samsung galaxy) to text him. I was home alone and all the above happened silently in my brain-and my laptop camera is covered.

I picked up my phone and clicked "contacts"-and his name opened up immediately without having to scroll through the list. He was several people back on my current message history. wtf?

Then I was just reading about the GM flour recall, and went to text another friend that works with recalls of that type. I thought, hmm I wonder if his name will come up? And sure enough I clicked contacts and instead of the list his name opened up. Not my last contact I messaged, either.

The first one really freaked me out because it is not someone I text often and I had quite a convoluted line of thought before I picked up my phone. The second one freaked me out because how can that happen twice in an hour with different contacts, being the one I intended to message, again in total silence?

I could understand if I said their name outloud but I didn't. Jesus!
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06/01/2016 12:59 PM
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Re: Mind reading phone
The thought has crossed my mind as well. It's probably already here.
very unnerved (OP)
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06/01/2016 01:10 PM
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Makes me wonder how far it goes-did the phone see my face (I had the screen facing me the whole time) was it electrical impulses in my hand?

I guess as long as it is just reading what I think it's not as bad as Making me think....

on the other hand, if my thoughts can be read then I am probably on a list! Maybe that's why my thoughts are being read...lol what a rabbit hole!

and, at least it was helpful-opening up those contacts for me without having to say a word. Wow the whole thing is just too strange....

*runs off to make a tinfoil hat*
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06/01/2016 01:45 PM
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I hope some folks will bump this because it is worth thinking about-get it, think! lol

I don't think it was fake book because I have never used it on my phone. I used it on this comp but dleted my account a few years ago.

I do have a google account.

But to make the leap from the spaceweather page to wanting to text a particular friend is pretty far out. I don't text many people, but the odds were bigger that I would text another person to say keep an eye out for auroras the 5th.

and then there is the poster who just looked at the paper towels (in a storeroom) and got an ad for them. Someone did remark there might have been cameras in the storeroom.

At any rate, the whole thing leads me to believe that super advances have been created in the IT biz- along AI lines- which is something right out of science fiction.

Most of us realize that everything we do online is monitored and logged-obviously via supercomputer-but to have gotten so advanced our actions can be predicted based on what we read on a page is chilling.

Nothing new-that's what propaganda is about after all, but it feels so anti-privacy!!

I mean, who is at the helm of the supercomputer? A rich businessman? A meglomaniac who wants to rule the world? The gubment? Is the supercomputer left to it's own supervision? All those scenarios frankly suck ass.

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06/01/2016 01:46 PM
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maybe ia AI 5a





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