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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 21h
thinking out loud about "cognitive offloading" in comments on this thread, kind of napkinly. 1st axis is the fakening already happened" of like, nearly all operations of the physical and social-institutional world are completely abstracted away from average person who can't understand them and
Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 5h
Tangential to Cat's point about research, but you learn a lot from shifting epithets over the last 4 yrs. "Plagiarism machines" was big — when people thought IP law would put a stop to this. "Spicy autocomplete..." worked better before the end of the sentence was "solved another Erdős problem." +
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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 20m
shouldn't be able to (Gellner's "Rubber Cage of Modernity", Habermas's System contra Lifeworld) and you skate along kind of semi-disneyfied interfaces patched together from one seam to another with at worst needing to summon a specialist in that one interface UI element, to fix something, for the
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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 19m
most part, even in the parts of life most closely "to the metal" of the underlying System, eg jobs being like manipulating abstractions and social ties inside large organizational blobs, or coding being like manipulating chains of libraries bound together by interfaces, etc. The 20 watts of human
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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 18m
attention is conserved so be no economically useful, as well as just the way the rich and well-arranged world is set up, it needs to stretch further and further. But this has already gone incredibly far, to the point where the loss of "navigating by feel" to GPS, to the waymo just driving the car
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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 17m
for you is... what is the loss, exactly? it's something like you have 3 watts freed up and then by the nature of daily experience, those immediately get plunged back into the next best activity on the stack which is... what exactly the fear is that the "meaningful activity stack" runs out (on
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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 16m
separate tracks of {economic imposed reality—have to maintain the System somehow at some junction} and {personal identity reality—pursuing meaningful life projects, with former often contained in this latter}) and then it's just like, brute attentional capture at the fastest and most base loops,
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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 14m
A Disneyland with Disney Adult Children, paraphrasing Bostrom. so the worry is like people get too much attention back, on the one hand, but then they either have nothing valuable to spend it on, compared to what they were previously either compelled or induced to spend it on, or they do but choose
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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 14m
not too, or some third more obscure dimension of damage. And there were supposed to be more items in the list but this feels like a natural stopping point.
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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 14m
footnote bsky.app/profile/norv...
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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 23d
a pleometric-shaped point, kind of like: complaint about new technology X, that it 'hollows out' 'marketizes' or 'replaces' some Y. But then missing observation that this has already happened and the technology pushing on an open or blown-off-its-hinges door
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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social
footnote 2 the whitehead quote I planned to include in the first tweet and immediately forgot "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them."