algorithmic anxiety

exploring algorithmic authority over our lives, and what it's doing to us

The Age of Algorithmic Anxiety

Independent creators today, consciously or unconsciously, subscribe to a kind of algorithmic polytheism. If you publish words on Twitter, you're doing proof-of-work sacrifices to honor one unknowable god; if you publish videos to Youtube, you're doing different proof-of-work sacrifices to honor a different unknowable god. And so on.

Justin Murphy • The Imperceptible Mechanisms of Deep Community

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“The web promises to make our world bigger. But as it works now, it also narrows our exposure to ideas. We can end up in a bubble in which we hear only the ideas we already know. Or already like.”

― Sherry Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age

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The Shawshank Redemption failed at the box office but went on to gross more than $100 million as a cult classic.

The 48 Laws of Power missed the bestseller lists for more than a decade and still sold more than a million copies.

James Stevens

Caffeine's Wiki — YTT — Fighting the YouTube Algorithm

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It’s getting ever harder to distinguish humans from bots, not just because bots are becoming more humanlike, but also because humans are becoming more botlike.

As knowledge of human psychology evolves, algorithms become better at shaping human behavior.

Gurwinder • Why You Are Probably an NPC

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9 Ways to ‘Rewild Your Attention’

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Stuart Evans

spending too much time in the big algorithmic feeds winds up being a form of intellectual monocropping. It’s not terribly diverse or surprising. It’s not that the stuff in your feeds is all bad; some of it’s great! But it’s got a deadening sameness to it.

Clive Thompson • 9 Ways to ‘Rewild Your Attention’

Stuart Evans