"Murphy Has Come and His Law is that of the Land" | Cyber Patterns Podcast: Episode #25
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"Murphy Has Come and His Law is that of the Land" | Cyber Patterns Podcast: Episode #25
In response to the ads, the tracking, the trolling, the hype, and other predatory behaviors, we’re retreating to our dark forests of the internet, and away from the mainstream.
This very email is an example of this. This theory is being shared on a private channel sent to 500 people who I know or who have explicitly chosen to receive it. This is the... See more
This very email is an example of this. This theory is being shared on a private channel sent to 500 people who I know or who have explicitly chosen to receive it. This is the... See more
Yancey Strickler • The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
An analysis of existential dread online, predicting AI's erosion of reality will make the internet meaningless.
TRANSCRIPT
But I think for me, I think it's like really like reaching ahead right now because of an existential dread about the future.
It feels nearly impossible to understand where society is going right now. And I think we've all been aware of screen time and how much of our lives we are dedicating to these devices. Like I've been I've been painfully
... See more- "To exist on platforms is to be subject to this kind of continual identity reconstitution, to fluidity. Self-branding attempts to hide this inevitability by claiming agency over it, as though by choosing to turn our identity into capital, it becomes a free choice. Self-obfuscation, on the other hand, effectively embraces it through a kind of... See more