Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #109
As the false output of artificial intelligence content generation gets mixed in with original human-generated content on the internet, the internet will become less and less useful. All the more so when intelligence agencies, corporations, governments, PR firms, and other propaganda actors us AI to deliberately seed the internet with false informat... See more
Charles Eisenstein • An unbelievable opportunity
As authority shifts from humans to algorithms, we may no longer view the world as the playground of autonomous individuals struggling to make the right choices. Instead, we might perceive the entire universe as a flow of data, see organisms as little more than biochemical algorithms, and believe that humanity’s cosmic vocation is to create an all-e
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
What the technologists working at the very heart of the world’s biggest tech companies realize, however, is just how disempowering such individuation can be.
Douglas Rushkoff • Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
When more and more of the “things” we take up during the course of our day are digitized or virtual realities, which leave few if any traces in the world?
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
These companies, the attention economy itself, and the consumerist society that gave birth to it, deploy vast resources to turn as many people as possible into passive consumers, to reduce us to our eyeballs and our wallets. Because the more control a company can get over those things, the better their stocks will perform.
First, consumerism turned... See more
First, consumerism turned... See more