“Remember a networked learning machine's most basic rule: strengthen the connections to those who succeed, weaken them to those who fail.”
Source: Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century (2000), Ch.9 The Conformity Police
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Howard Bloom 39
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