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Q: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Rachel Botsman ? In her witty new book Australian technology author and TED celebrity Rachel Botsman tells us why it did not work. Who Can You Trust? How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Could Drive Us Apart might be a bit too perky for some but it reveals some deep truths.
With industrial power collapsed  social media’s “distributed trust” began its run to win popular trust.  Botsman  even claims to have predicted the next stage of evolution  anticipating Airbnb  Zipcar and Uber in  her  previous book. At first the masses took to social technology like ducks to water but few thought through the costs of power flowing from institutional experts to less sophisticated individuals. It turned out that these social media had institutions too  if less hierarchical  but still leading to someone at the top with a great degree of control over the people’s “open” media below them.
 Botsman  says  she  would not have written  her  book if  she  did not think distributed networks could solve many problems and develop popular trust  but the many examples presented in  her  book demonstrate that “distributed trust always seem to lead us back to centralized power ” with Facebook  Amazon  and Alibaba leading the list.
 Her  thesis is that distributed systems need to know who is telling the truth in order to be social but their media technology develop so fast and anonymously it becomes difficult to trace accountability. Perhaps 75 percent of automobiles will self-drive by 2040. How can sufficient trust develop in such a major activity in such a short time? Blockchains like Bitcoin may replace governmental currency and financial transactions. Robots threaten to take everyone’s job. The most famous bot was HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey and we all know what happened then. Some “trust pause” will certainly be necessary for such major social transitions.
Take the number one social media technology guy  Mark Zuckerberg  who created Facebook to be an open forum for public discussion. Yet  after social media was accused of biasing the presidential election even  he  had to reluctantly concede (the second time) that there was an abundance of fake news on  his  site  which  he  then promised to fix in a socially positive way.  His  solution was to balance alternative views by adding “additional perspectives ” including noting after doubtful material that fact checkers disputed the claims in the original published news. But who would do the “fact checking”?
 Botsman  does not mention  it  but Google’s top scientist Ray Kurzweil had bigger ideas. Computers would be thinking for themselves by 2014 with humans becoming immortal soon after. Humans would become immortal under Kurzweil’s Calico project to replicate nature’s control of mitochondrial DNA by moving toxic bacteria into the cell nucleus to stop aging. With age under control people would live forever. At the same time  artificial intelligence would develop computers that learn by themselves. Ageless individuals could then link an AI machine to their brain so they could give accurate and immediate responses to every kind of question. But if this takes place instantly  is that a person still a person or a computer?
China’s Social Credit System would produce a “social credit score” for every Chinese citizen and introduce national networks of shame to ameliorate and control unruly segments of the population. This system should have a bullish future in much of the world now under authoritarian governments.  Botsman  quips: “Today China  tomorrow a place near you.”
Not a place in the U.S. with its democratic government protecting privacy  right? One big obstacle to such protection mentioned by  Botsman  is that government regulation simply cannot keep up with the explosive rate of change in private social media technology. There is that free speech and press stuff but Congress just approved another renewal of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act seventeen years after 9/11 and few doubt that some similar future horrendous terrorist act would make the government’s surveillance even more intrusive.
 Botsman ’s general solution to increase social trust is to rely upon reputation  which is sound  but extremely difficult to evaluate as  her  book proves.
How do we even know if  Botsman  isn’t a bot already  predicting China for us all?

A: Positive
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Q: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Alec Baldwin Alec ? Actor Alec Baldwin  discussed rampant allegations of sexual misconduct with Megyn Kelly on her NBC morning show Thursday and stated that  while many perpetrators have admitted their guilt  there are innocents who stand accused of sexual impropriety.
Earlier this week   Baldwin  shared a Twitter update calling out late-night TV hosts â such as Stephen Colbert and John Oliver â over their propensity to act as figurative grand juries with regard to targets of sexual misconduct allegations.
 Baldwin  tweeted Wednesday: âTalk shows were once promotional pit stops for some blithe chit chat about movies  etc. Now the likes of @iamjohnoliver and @StephenAtHome have flipped that and they are beginning to resemble grand juries.â
What did  Baldwin  say to Kelly?
 Baldwin  told Kelly that  he  stands by  his  tweet and added that  he  doesnât want to âsee people who are innocent get into trouble.â
âI do find that  that whole issue  which is a big can of worms to open up really  it is really  really tough  because you certainly want to see everyone who is guilty of something  who have done bad things  wrong things that hurt people  you want to see those people get punished â  Baldwin  explained. âBut I donât want to see other people get pulled into that who â¦ thereâs a lot of accusations and no proof yet  I donât want to see people to get hurt.â
 He  added  â[People] think that those hosts of those shows are perfectly â not only within their rights â but itâs very attractive or very necessary for them to be pressing this cause. I just donât want to see people who are innocent get into trouble.â
 Baldwin  pointed to embattled film producer Harvey Weinstein and the plethora of accusations laid against  him .
âLike Weinstein  for example  is in a rehab hiding behind millions of dollarsâ worth of lawyers â  Baldwin  explained  âand I want to see the people who really did something get convicted.â
 He  added  âI mean I want the people who are in the wrong  I want them to be punished  but I donât want to see innocent people get hurt either.â

A: Neutral
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Q: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Igor Sechin ? Russia and Belarus on Wednesday signed a new deal on Russian oil deliveries to Belarus  Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin said  ending a month-long dispute that had raised fears European supplies could be threatened.
 "Today a large number of documents have been signed " Sechin told Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at a meeting  in comments published on the government web site.
 Sechin said the documents signed involved changes to previous agreements on the delivery of crude oil to Belarus and the method of setting prices for the sale of Russian oil.
 Sechin said he and his Belarussian counterpart had also signed a joint declaration pledging uninterrupted transit of Russian oil across Belarus to third countries.
 Sechin said that Russia agreed to compromise on "harsh" conditions because of the special relationship between the neighbouring Slavic countries.
 "The position of the Belarussian side was very harsh for us. We agreed to a number of compromises  bearing in mind the special relationship with a brother republic  with the people of Belarus " Sechin said.
 Sechin called the signed documents "very balanced" and "representing a compromise."
 In televised comments to Sechin  Medvedev said the Russian position was to "give our Belarussian partners the opportunity to work by providing delivery for internal use at a reduced price and on the other side to guarantee transit."

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