God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
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God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
If companies once expected perfect data to make consumers perfectly predictable, the fundamental uncertainty of life has deprived them of that prize. We aren’t machines—but that hasn’t stopped tech companies from trying to turn us into them.
Margaret Heffernan • Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future
It’s not just that we are being mined for information. I believe this algorithmic catering to our private desires only serves to make us trust each other less. We live in a self-perpetuating social cycle where the more time we spend as isolated individuals consuming algorithmically-curated culture, the more we trust algorithms over each other.
José Marichal • Trust an algorithm, or trust your neighbor?
Under scientism, humans are just robots running programs—either the ones dictated by our genes, or destructive pathogens like spirituality. However, by refusing to understand how meaning-making is a subtle community project related to the ways we live together, this orthodox scientism denies any scheme of things where human agency—hand in hand with
... See moreDouglas Rushkoff • Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
I suspect we humans do better with constraints; the Internet stripped away the constraint of physical distribution, and now AI is removing the constraint of needing to actually produce content. That this is spoiling the Internet is perhaps the best hope for finding our way back to what is real. Let the virtual world be one of customized content for... See more