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I wrote an essay a few weeks back that has yet to be published (it was about AI but it applies here). It is starting to feel like everything is starting to feed

I wrote an essay a few weeks back that has yet to be published (it was about AI but it applies here). It is starting to feel like everything is starting to feed back on itself. The output is being funneled back into input. Like a fractal. Interesting but you do not want to build a society on a fractal. Or a city on Rock and roll for that manner ;). In that sense technology is becoming a feed back loop of society itself. Anxiety, can be an act of repeating the same nervous though again and again in a loop never moving on. In that way, this is were information technology had lead a lot of realms of us to. To some degree I think this is what Jaron Lanier means when he says AI could drive us insane. This level of feed back is not going to work out well.

leonroy 3y ago
> In that sense technology is becoming a feed back loop of society itself. I had a discussion recently with somebody about how it feels as though the 70s, 80s, 90s had a distinctive style but from the early 00s onwards there appears to be no distinguishing character to the recent most decades. Their conclusion was that it was due to 'the increase in technology use, less creativity - more sat about consuming media in one way or another'. I wonder if that's true - we no longer have to suffer silence or boredom thanks to an endless stream of 'content' available to us. It prevents rumination and leads us to have every thought impressed upon it variations of patterns from the past.