romance
In a recent post, On the quiet power of becoming nobody I touched on how social media fragments our ability to connect with others in the real world, and what it means to finally find oneself outside of it. I'm going to extend those thoughts here. The longer
thought leadership
Yesterday while watching a Stanford-sponsored, nonprofit-targeted presentation recommended by an executive-level director on "healthy cognitive offloading with AI", I had an anxiety attack. The presentation was AI-generated, full of errors, logical inconsistencies and blatant manipulation of reason. The presenter was taken at her word
AI
We're in the early days of a mass cognitive crisis, obscured by capital forces in the same way our environmental crises have been obscured by the fossil fuel industry for decades. That the two operate according to the same morally-bereft framework is no surprise. When exponential capital
accelerationism
Yesterday I had the sickening realization that we're entering another era of polarizing discourse re: AI. Fresh off the deeply divisive and destructive wave of covid mis/disinformation and having apparently learned nothing from it, people are dusting off their pitchforks and setting out to burn down anyone
cognitive care
About fifteen years ago I casually started warning my circles that once the speed of information outpaced our bureaucratic systems, society was likely to collapse. I remember mentioning it at a family dinner as we lightly engaged in "what's wrong with the world these days" conversation.
cognitive atrophy
Early adopters: I think we got cooked. Mass dementia might be the "rupture" Carney was referring to. Hear me out: This might be what Christina Lagarde meant at Davos when she said, (notes in my last post) "I'm not exactly on the same page as
accelerationism
Technology has accelerated the widening chasm between clear information and muddied noise; social media and now LLMs have broadly eroded information literacy and sown chaos throughout most spheres of public discourse. Everyone is confused, most are angry, some were blissfully lobotomized by the algorithms long ago. But our online spaces