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Benjamin Bratton • The Five Stages Of AI Grief | NOEMA
The algorithm is God,”
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
The stronger identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.”
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
After von Neumann, Shannon was the most important figure in the establishment of the system of the world that Google now embodies. I would like to say that he showed the way out. But Shannon himself ended up enmeshed in the same materialist superstition that afflicts the Google Age. “I think man is a machine of a very complex sort,”
George Gilder • Life After Google
your personal style has a shape, in the most mathematical of terms.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
streambait”
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Under modernity, each person must be a piece in a jigsaw puzzle: completely unique but predictably so—a piece that is different from all those around it but still able to fit into a larger picture. We have more artifacts, both material and digital, than ever with which to enact our identities, yet we can never seem capable of staying unique for
... See moreDavid A. Banks • The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America

This explains the idea of promoting a Greater Safety Net for networked individuals rather than for corporations—a hedge designed to cover us against all critical risks and empower us in our many interactions with other economic agents, all without the intermediation of the proxies (large corporations, the state) on which the Great Safety Net 1.0
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