DIGITAL MAOISM: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism | Edge.org
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DIGITAL MAOISM: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism | Edge.org
The calling for this new internet has never been more dire. As you're reading this, machine learning algorithms are being trained on the billions of gallons of bullshit we spew online each day.
AI-powered document editors, then, among other tools, use all that training data to make it even easier to write outcome-oriented garbage that moves us furt... See more
AI-powered document editors, then, among other tools, use all that training data to make it even easier to write outcome-oriented garbage that moves us furt... See more
Dan Hunt • Internet as Practice
Hobbes’s assumption that people are incapable of coexisting without authority implies that human online interactions on news sites would benefit from signage, structure and incentives to participate in a deliberative way.
Marie K. Shanahan • Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse
As we have seen in the previous theses, our digital environment:
Regulates our lives towards a smaller number of paths purposely designed by others rather than trails more fortuitous and exploratory.
Builds up a monolithic authentic self rather than a lush set of mutually-enriching contextual identities.
Is heavily focused on categorising people, whic
stealing • Retrofuturism
