Brandon Marcus
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Brandon Marcus
Resentment coinciding with principle is a very powerful motive - John Adams
You might also be aware that all this is delivered by means of “persuasive design”—an umbrella term for an armory of psychological techniques borrowed directly from the designers of casino slot machines, for the express purpose of encouraging compulsive behavior. One example among hundreds is the ubiquitous drag-down-to-refresh gesture, which keeps... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
But as important as material self-interest is, human beings are motivated by other things as well, motives that better explain the disparate events of the present. This might be called the politics of resentment. In a wide variety of cases, a political leader has mobilized followers around the perception that the group's dignity had been affronted,
... See moreIt would be impossible to imagine interstate commerce without the infrastructure of federal highways. Likewise, it’s impossible to imagine the free exchange of ideas and information that democracy requires without the press. This goes beyond news, which is only one component of communities’ informational needs. Consumer alerts, emergency weather... See more
The Media Is Essential Democratic Infrastructure
Digital technologies ended the gatekeeper era, emancipated authorship, removed the boundaries on discourse and put reality up for grabs. Truth is contested and crowdsourced.
epistemics and
The Lost Generation
compactmag.com
In Jameson’s formulation, postmodernism registered an economic and cultural vibe shift, rippling through a world whose final barriers to global capital circulation were crumbling. Under so-called late capitalism, an alchemy of multinational finance and postindustrial consumer fantasias powered a cultural regime of ahistorical pastiche, defanged... See more
What’s Our Age Again? | The Editors
So let’s start with the observation that in these cases LLMs are more than a tool for writing, narrowly understood, because the act of writing is also the more basic act of articulation.8 When we turn to an LLM to write for us, we are also inviting it to undertake the more fundamental task of articulation, and this is no small thing. Indeed, given... See more