Rob Horning
- useful chart for "deanthropomorphizing" discussions of "AI" firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...
- also seems like a good guide to what writing about AI not to take so seriously; shows who is either not thinking carefully enough about the topic or is deliberately writing obfuscatory hype
- though I doubt "AI" will be replaced widely with "probabilistic automation" it probably should be. (I awkwardly try to put "AI" in quotes when I use it but often have given in to anthropomophizing usage)
- "desocialization" (like "social deskilling") is a good term for what was once talked about in terms of "social graph" vs. "interest graph," or of "algorithmic recommendation" nymag.com/intelligence...
- this was obvious from the advent of TikTok, that it was meant to isolate and alienate users and abolish "social" aspect of social media; perhaps pandemic isolation muddled that for a time with the idea that people needed platforms to simulate social experience
- maybe what I was trying to say here reallifemag.com/i-write-the-...
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View full threadit seems self-confirming that when you can't stop looking at a feed it seems to prove that it really is "for you" and about you even if it is mostly the same as every other feed; but this fails to explain what makes any particular content compelling. Maybe it is just context-free sensationalism
