Someone on Twitter suggested affixing services with the equivalent of the newly-mandated restaurant calorie count: this is the lived employment reality of the person serving you, this is what this particular service does to the environment. That feels blunt but appropriate, given how effective capitalism is at cloaking the means, conditions, and... See more
It may be true that we need a new story, as many social change organisations now suggest, but we can’t buy one off the shelf that speaks to our civilisational predicament, nor brainstorm our way to one that works.
my theory is that AI-generated information will be weirdly unexpectedly bad for minds at scale in the same way that processed food is weirdly unexpectedly bad for bodies at scale
so "human-made information" will be the new "whole foods"
it'll still be important