The EAs were too “woke” and too concerned with appearances.
The EAs were too “woke” and too concerned with appearances.
People speculate on ideas, personalities, etc. Why wouldn’t they? But when this happens, you end up with a system optimized for speed and virality rather than stability or accuracy.
kyla scanlon • Trump, Mamdani, and Cluely
If thick voice-based activism can add a potent layer of humanity to abstract policy issues, thin voice-based activism runs the risk of “slacktivism,” the critique that writer Evgeny Morozov and others have offered about activism that’s more about virtue signaling and unconsidered participation than about making change.
Ethan Zuckerman • Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
Algorithm-driven echo chambers ensure that we only ever hear from people we already agree with. It’s not that people don’t argue anymore—we argue constantly —but the nature of the debate has changed. The goal is no longer to explore or challenge ideas, but to perform intelligence and “win” whatever discourse is currently relevant. The effect is an ... See more
The death of the public intellectual
The panel members saw themselves as above and apart from fearful, conflictual politics. Their politics was technocratic, dedicated to discovering right answers that were knowable and out there, and just needed to be analyzed and spreadsheeted into being. Their politics had borrowed from the business world the pleasantness and mutualism of the win-w
... See moreAnand Giridharadas • Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Gen Z in particular reacts harshly when they feel a company is merely giving lip service to a political statement.