Kiera Dailey
@mythandmuse
Kiera Dailey
“The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.”
― Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society
We see curiosity theater all around.
Audience members asking questions at panels that are actually mini-speeches. People at dinner name-dropping obscure books in conversation but never engaging with their core arguments. Folks on social media starting ‘learning projects’ and abandoning them after a week.
Then there’s curation theater.
Posting endless... See more
Audience members asking questions at panels that are actually mini-speeches. People at dinner name-dropping obscure books in conversation but never engaging with their core arguments. Folks on social media starting ‘learning projects’ and abandoning them after a week.
Then there’s curation theater.
Posting endless... See more
Sangeet Paul Choudary • Humans as 'luxury goods' in the age of AI
What is authenticity? Of course there’s no such thing, but that hasn’t stopped anyone from believing in it. Nearly 80 years of anthropology research on authenticity-seeking behavior reveal authenticity to be one of the stickiest modern superstitions. The bulk of the early research is about tourism, an activity frequently motivated by a search for... See more
subpixel space • After Authenticity
Over-identification with rebellion or contrarianism.
If all human activity can be measured on a spectrum of authenticity and performativity, what metrics can we use to weed out the genuine from the fabricated? Will we just know ? And why do we care? If our culture of liberal individualism demands anything of us, it is to be, above all else, authentic. To be seen as a poseur or a phony—a person who... See more
The Curious Notoriety of “Performative Reading”
Initial thought: Thoughts on authenticity versus performance. Beyond just being the thing I think that a lot of the litmus test of whether or not something is purely performative is respect and foundation.
Secondary thought: perhaps the question isn’t whether something is authentic versus performative, but rather whether the performance itself appreciates or mimics. Is it fully fleshed, contextual, and nuanced or a flat caricature?