AI Thoughts
Let’s be blunt, we’ve built a multi trillion dollar global economy on propositional knowledge. AI is eating that for lunch. What remains scarce, and therefore valuable, isn’t more information. It’s wisdom. Not as some mystical abstraction, but as a practical capacity: the integration of multiple ways of knowing, propositional, embodied, relational,... See more
Nicolas Michaelsen • The birth of the Wisdom Economy
AI Security Warning from Signal app's Meredith Whittaker – The Hidden Dangers of Agentic AI
youtube.comThe results were far from encouraging. Only some interventions showed modest improvements. None were able to fully disrupt the fundamental mechanisms producing the dysfunctional effects. In fact, some interventions actually made the problems worse. For example, chronological ordering had the strongest effect on reducing attention inequality, but... See more
Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed
The Intelligence Curse
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The defense against slop and brainrot
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The question is not whether algorithms can ever foster greatness—they cannot. Their design is fundamentally at odds with the qualities that define great art: depth, complexity, and the capacity to provoke discomfort or transformation. The question is whether we, as creators and consumers, are willing to resist their influence.
Resistance does not... See more
Resistance does not... See more
Dr. Felix S. Grenwood • Algorithms of Mediocrity — william

how to get smart again: building a media syllabus
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