"The fundamental problem, as I see it, is not that social media misinforms individuals about what is true or untrue but that it creates publics with malformed collective understandings.”
#HenryFarrell, 2025
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getting-the-social-media-crisis
#HatTip to @laurenshof for bringing my attention to this piece in one of his;
https://connectedplaces.online/the-digital-services-act-and-theories-of-power/
@hrheingold
> Alison Gopnik on llms as
cultural tools
Intriguing, link please? I did some web searching and found various related stuff, but couldn't find an article just by Gopnik.
"... LLMs should be seen as tools for augmenting human intellect rather than autonomous intelligent agents (which they can emulate) ..."
@hrheingold, 2026
https://www.patreon.com/posts/147903672
Tools for making people into centaurs, to use the automation theory terminology @pluralistic references.
@hrheingold
FYI the article you link to has 3 coauthors (first author being Henry Farrell), and the full text can be found via this permalink;
@hrheingold
> I linked to Gopnik's image of the article because of the Science paywall
I'm not seeing a paywall at my end.
> That article has 3 authors
At the risk of splitting hairs, it's definitely 4; Farrell, Gopnik,
Cosma Shalizi, and James Evans. See the pdf on Farrell's homepage;
https://henryfarrell.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Science-Accepted-Version.pdf
> Gopnik had written about it solo
That's the one I was keen to read after you mentioned her, but I can't find a link to it on that Patreon page.
Strypey
Howard Rheingold