Sublime

We must instead take steps to extract the good from these technologies while sidestepping what’s bad. We require a philosophy that puts our aspirations and values once again in charge of our daily experience, all the while dethroning primal whims and the business models of Silicon Valley from their current dominance of this role; a philosophy that

"The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology."

— Renowned sociobiologist Dr. E. O. Wilson

internet sociologist Zeynep Tufekci

To reestablish control, we need to move beyond tweaks and instead rebuild our relationship with technology from scratch, using our deeply held values as a foundation.

Technology must support the work of human politics, not replace it.

the attention resistance—a loosely organized movement of individuals who use high-tech tools and strict operating procedures to extract value from the products of the digital attention economy, while avoiding falling victim to compulsive use.

Putting humans back in the loop in certain capacities, such as through middleware, is potentially transformative. So is scaling back the algorithms. It’s probably time to get rid of wholly automated trends features. Gaming them is a key element in creating majority illusions, projecting false consensus, and driving abuse toward Main Characters.