Internet
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Why Are Ads Everywhere?
You may have noticed something has changed in the luxurious 10 cm legroom low-cost airlines treat us to. In recent years, some wicked mf has figured that since you are going to be staring at the back of the seat… Continue reading
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TikTokfication II: How Social Media is Leading us Into an Idiocracy
What are we losing as a result of millions of people having their attention impaired to perform cognitively-demanding tasks? In post Ⅰ — which you should totally read btw — I argued that training advanced algorithms with self-learning capabilities to… Continue reading
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Drown in Irrelevancy: The Commoditization of Facts
What you are interested about is whatever they chose to be ‘the news’ and they’ll keep scrapping the world for dramatic events to report regardless of their meaningfulness to you, because the point is not to inform you, but to… Continue reading
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TikTokfication I: an AI-driven Idiocracy (when AI gets better at distraction)
How long until we consider social media an existential thread? An existential risk is a term coined by futurologist and philosopher Nick Bostrom, defined as an adverse outcome which would annihilate life on Earth permanently, or drastically curtail its potential.… Continue reading
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On The Problem of Telling Humans from Bots
What happens when we can no longer be certain that the person we’re interacting with is actually human and how to solve it. Nowadays, it’s still pretty obvious that the things you think are humans, are indeed humans. But what will… Continue reading
Andrés Gúrpide Lasheras 