In this post I dive into the issues of social media and AI, highlighting how they affect human behavior and understanding. I reflect on the irrationality of people’s decisions driven by emotions rather than facts, and worry about the growing impact of AI on our lives, questioning our future reliance on it.
In the beginning we sat around the fire and talked. Here I explore how we form social groups, and how that process has been altered by the advent of the web and search and social media. In a subsequent post I will home in on how the design of social media is reducing our native ability to think and reason.
It was Christmas 1994. Some 10 members of my family were gathered at our New Hampshire home. And I offered to get a movie from the video store (remember those) as entertainment the day after Christmas. I brought home Ran,… Read More »What is reality, really?