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What looks like apathy is often risk management.
What looks like disengagement is a cost-benefit calculation.
I wrote about the collapse of civic belief - and why cynicism isn’t a crisis of morality.
It’s a failure of systems.
https://www.theindex.media/the-market-for-hope-is-in-recession/
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> Engaging with AI as a technology is to play the fool—it’s to observe the reflective surface of the thing without taking note of the way it sends roots deep down into the ground
Truth.
How many poets does it take to change a lightbulb? It's more complicated than you thought, by some way, and worth thinking about.
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Tired of "free" QR code generators that are full of ads and trackers, that share your data, and that want to sell you something? Me too. Here's my act of resistance: I made a one-page site that works entirely in your browser to generate a simple QR code. And that's all it does. You can download the HTML page and run it locally, even. Read the source; nothing up my sleeves. Just a QR code.
My offer to you -- I will continue to pay for the domain name and web hosting for it, myself. If you find it valuable, you can pay it back by creating your own useful thing for the world and releasing it for free. Let's take back the friendly web, one vexingly-monetized utility at a time!
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This cartoon about AI reminded me of a story that I heard recently.
A friend of ours has a sister who has become a worshipper of Lucifer. (No big deal there, just another deity; you pays your money and you takes your choice.)
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What looks like apathy is often risk management.
What looks like disengagement is a cost-benefit calculation.
I wrote about the collapse of civic belief - and why cynicism isn’t a crisis of morality.
It’s a failure of systems.
https://www.theindex.media/the-market-for-hope-is-in-recession/
@Daojoan > And the secret the cynics miss: the house wins, yes. But only if you keep playing the same game.
That's one hell of a closing line. Thank you for writing.
☝️ How does Joan Westenberg keep nailing it?
"Cynicism is not a pathology, or a character flaw. It’s an entirely rational response to a political economy that has stopped delivering meaningful returns."
Once again, and after fifty years I tire of saying it, another graphic demonstration of Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety, aka the fallacy of sweeping dirt under the rug.
Wherever a Variety in the Real World exceeds avenues to deal with it, chaos will provide one.
Thus ocean waves grow until they foam, and angry people foment until someone offers a vent…
@Daojoan Other replies already pointed out how good the article is.
So, I will just focus on something small. The below is an excellent mental image invoking the precariousness of the situation:
"institutions [...] greenlight tech monopolies with all the foresight of a toddler playing Jenga"
@Daojoan 👍
"In psychology, self-efficacy is an individual's belief in their capacity to act in the ways necessary to reach specific goals...
Self-efficacy affects every area of human endeavor. By determining the beliefs a person holds regarding their power to affect situations, self-efficacy strongly influences both the power a person actually has to face challenges competently and the choices a person is most likely to make. These effects are particularly apparent, and compelling, with regard to investment behaviors such as in health,[2] education,[3] and agriculture.[4]
A strong sense of self-efficacy promotes human accomplishment and personal well-being. A person with high self-efficacy views challenges as things that are supposed to be mastered rather than threats to avoid. These people are able to recover from failure faster and are more likely to attribute failure to a lack of effort. They approach threatening situations with the belief that they can control them. These things have been linked to lower levels of stress and a lower vulnerability to depression."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-efficacy
@Daojoan "Adaptive" doesn't mean good. Stealing others' bread rations in the time of great famine is very "adaptive." It's also morally reprehensible, and literally no-one will miss you when you're hanged for it.
In politics, it's the same. Weathervanes are the most adaptive things in the world. It's no coincidence, that the word "weathervane" ("флюгер") is often used in Russia to describe the Kremlin propagandists.
Cynicism is the next to last kind of ideology you want to be praising.
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