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----    . Many references to "our phones" ... prefer email and letters. No [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone | dodopaddle ]], carry an ancient pushbutton phone for emergencies. Still, it is important to know what's shriveling the psyches of half the world; the Carr book sheds some light.
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 . '''Prologue: Poppies'''
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 . '''Ch. 1: A More Perfect Liquefaction'''
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 . '''Ch. 2: Privacy and the Public Interest'''
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 . '''Ch. 3: The Feed'''
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 . p65 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_(Facebook) | Facebook News Feed ]]  . p65 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_(Facebook) | Facebook News Feed ]] many angry, huge success
 . p76 industrialization of communication
 . p77 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caleb_Scharf | Caleb Scharf ]] 2021 [[ https://catalog.wccls.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.6&pos=1&cn=3910206 | The Ascent of Information ]]
  ."implicit in such calculations is a belief that the only information that counts is information that can be encoded and transmitted by machines"
  . conflation of "count" and "countable". Digital information is countable, a smile isn't. Those doing the counting are allocating resources, hopefully fairly, but probably profitably. If you get something for free, you are the product. If you pay for it yourself, you should choose what you pay for.
  . a lot of "we" statements. [[ https://huntthedevil.wordpress.com/2015/05/08/what-do-you-mean-we-white-man/ | What do you mean we, white man? ]] - an essay by Robert L. Ivie and Oscar Giner which I'd never be aware of without the Internet.
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 . '''Ch.4: Fast Talking, Fast Thinking'''
 . p86 [[ https://history.berkeley.edu/david-henkin | David Henkin ]] [[ https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo4134270.html | The Postal Age ]] 2006 PSU HE6371.H46 2006
 . p88 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_W._Adorno | Theodor Adorno ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minima_Moralia | Minima Moralia ]]
 . p93 by 2010, teenagers sent eight texts per waking hour, far more often than F2F
 . p94 texting is faster, cult of concision says [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McWhorter | John McWhorter ]]
 . p99 What we sacrifice are depth and rigor. Reactive rather than reflective
 . p100 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow | Daniel Kahneman System 1 ]] rather than controlled, deliberative System 2
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 . '''Ch.5: Antipathies'''
 . p102 Ebbe Ebbeson UCSD 1975 [[ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222457946_Spatial_ecology_Its_effects_on_the_choice_of_friends_and_enemies#fullTextFileContent | Spatial Ecology ]] neighbors more likely friends, but EVEN MORE LIKELY ENEMIES
 . p105 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Norton_(professor) | Michael I. Norton ]] 2007 [[ https://people.duke.edu/~dandan/webfiles/PapersUpside/Less%20is%20More.pdf | Less is more: the lure of ambiguity, or why familiarity breeds contempt ]]
 .p107 Self-disclosure gets riskier as it gets deeper
 .p107 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Suler | John Suler ]] [[ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/John-Suler/publication/8451443_The_Online_Disinhibition_Effect/links/5552544608aeaaff3befe87d/The-Online-Disinhibition-Effect.pdf | online disinhibition effect ]] oversharing is the new norm
 .p110 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherry_Turkle | Sherry Turkle ]] [[ https://catalog.wccls.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.6&pos=3&cn=3094940 | Reclaiming Conversation ]] social media "anti-empathy machine"
 .p111 empathy is quality, not quantity
 .p111 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin_Altman | Irwin Altman ]] [[ https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2010-01284-001 | Dalmas A. Taylor ]] [[ https://search.worldcat.org/title/9066345 | Social Penetration: The Development of Interpersonal Relationships ]] PSU HM132.A38
  .stages: [[ https://sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu/kgreene/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2018/02/ACGreene-SPT.pdf | orientation (trivial), exploratory affective exchange, affective exchange, stable exchange ]]
 .p112 at any stage, conflicts can arise, fall back to earlier stage, or to acrimony
 .p113 revelation may be rewarding, bus psychically costly. "penetration" an act of love, or violation
 .p114 Altman [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_regulation_theory | privacy regulation theory ]]
 .p115 removing boundaries sets stage for discord, not harmony
 .p115 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Simmel | Georg Simmel ]] 1903 essay [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metropolis_and_Mental_Life | The Metropolis and Mental Life ]]
 .p117 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Bogost | Ian Bogost ]] [[ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/11/twitter-facebook-social-media-decline/672074/ | The Age of Social Media is Ending ]]
  . notes page 245 says "... Media is Over" rather than "... Media is Ending"
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 .'''Ch. 6: The Democratization Fallacy'''
 . '''Medium of the Masses''' - summary of a 2020's snapshot ... but the fat lady ain't sung yet ...
 .p118 list of four social and political problems
  . how do those problems compare to the consequences of Gutenberg's printing press and 1450s Gutenberg Bible? IMHO, that fueled the Protestant Reformation, modern science, and a Metric Crapton of wars.
  . You Cannot Do Only One Thing.
 .p119 Broadcasting and publishing were largely in the hands of a small group of for-profit companies.
  . BULLSHIT. Like most distributions, a few publishing elephants and innumerable mice. Mice grow and merge into elephants, inflate, and die. In 2025, the BIG problem is monopoly-model search engines like Google, but as those edge towards "push" instead of "answer the question asked", they are one new paradigm away from AOL irrelevance.
 .p121 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Cairncross | Francis Cairncross ]] 1997 book "The Death of Distance" PSU HE7631.C34 2001b
 .p123 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Rushkoff | Douglas Rushkoff ]] [[ https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10753 | Open Source Democracy ]]
 .p124 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yochai_Benkler | Yochai Benkler ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Networks | The Wealth of Networks ]] PSU HM851.B457 2006
  .I recall purchasing the print book, but cannot find it on my shelves. I fear that I donated it to the Internet Archive, foolishly assuming it would always be available to me and also shared with others. It is currently being held prisoner by the Copyright Pigs. As I write this, used copies are available for $2.19+$3.98 from Amazon Marketplace, but inches of shelf space are not.
 .p125 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Sunstein | Cass Sunstein ]] 2001 [[ https://search.worldcat.org/title/48930918 | Republic.com ]] PSU HM851.S87 2001
  . Republic.com 2.0 2007 PSU HM851.S8728 2007
 .p129 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Lippmann | Walter Lippmann ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Republic | New Republic magazine ]] 1914
  .ref [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Steel | Ronald Steel ]] [[ https://search.worldcat.org/title/39347245 | Walter Lippmann and the American century ]] 1980
 .p130 During WW1, Lippman wrote leaflets convincing German soldiers to desert army for good treatment as POWs
  .ref Walter Lippmann book [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Foreign_Policy_(book) | U.S. Foreign Policy Shield of the Republic]] [[ https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.4394 | online ]]
 .p131 Walter Lippmann 1922 book [[ https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126489 | Public Opinion ]] online
 .p133 Walter Lippmann 1925 book [[ https://search.worldcat.org/title/27034452 | The Phantom Public ]] Multco 303.38 L766p 1993
 .p133 "average citizen: impossible task unobtainable ideal .. of the sovereign and omnicompetent citizen"
  . Missing the picture - a citizen is not a complete isolated unit, nor an externally assigned component of complete unit. A citizen is a situationally motivated (and ideally self-assigned volunteer in many temporary collaborations, in parallel, where "temporary" may span a lifetime or a the raise of an eyebrow. Unlike a component in a machine, a citizen can and SHOULD choose her collaborations, and relinquish them for others when better opportunities seem to arise.
  ."A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines" - Emerson
 .p134 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_A._Simon | Herbert Simon's ]] "bounded rationality" ... how about "woven rationality": a fabric of wispy 1 inch fibers twisted into one mile threads on a spool. The "human threads" are a glorious rainbow of unique colors, rather than bland featureless monocolor. Threads woven into fabrics, fabrics shaped into sheets and shirts and sails, all depending on the diverse strengths and crosswise twisty orientation of all those uniquely-positioned fibers.
 .p134 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kahneman | Daniel Kahneman ]] and [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Tversky | Amos Tversky ]]
 .p135 [[ https://dof.princeton.edu/people/christopher-h-achen | Christopher Achen ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Bartels | Larry Bartels ]] [[ https://sppe.lse.ac.uk/articles/52 | Democracy for Realists ]] WCCLS 321.8 ACHEN Cmill Tig Hills-Brook
 .p135 [[ https://www.isu.edu/cmp/about/faculty/staffdirectoryentries/gershberg-zac-.html | Zac Gershberg ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Illing | Sean Illing ]] 2012 [[ https://search.worldcat.org/title/1268256421 | The Paradox of Democracy ]]
  . the most knowledgeable voters are prone to biased decisions
 .p135 [[ https://www.danielyudkin.com/ | Daniel A. Yudkin ]] [[ https://perceptiongap.us/media/zaslaroc/perception-gap-report-1-0-3.pdf | The Perception Gap: How False Impressions Are Pulling Americans Apart ]]
  . "well-educated" Democrats avoid Republicans, choose less diverse friends, inaccurate views of disagreeing others
 .p136 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Kinder | Donald R. Kinder ]] [[ https://nathankalmoe.com/ | Nathan P. Kalmoe ]] [[ https://search.worldcat.org/title/958779971 | Neither Liberal of Conservative ]]
 . Charles Cooley [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Blackmore | Susan Blackmore ]]
 .p138 n34 [[ https://bear.warrington.ufl.edu/brenner/mar7588/Papers/hasher-et-al-jvvb-1977.pdf | Frequency and the Conference of Referential Validity / Lynn Hasher & David Goldstein / Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 16, 107-112 (1977) ]]
 .p139 Familiarity breeds gullibility
 .p139 Social media creed of repetition, the mob, the huckster, the tyrant
 .p139 Victor Klemperer, "The Language of the Third Reich" 2006 p39 Multco 430.9043 K648L 2006
 .p140 Twitter retweet button, programmer [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Wetherell | Chris Wetherell ]] [[ http://massless.org/ | website ]] now San Francisco, formerly Beaverton Oregon
 .p143 Facebook users share/retweet posts denigrating "the other side" twice as often as about the ingroup. Anger and outrage and mocking accumulates.
   .[[ https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-it-encourages-division-top-executives-nixed-solutions-11590507499 | WSJ: 2020/05/27 Facebook Executives Shut Down Efforts to Make the Site Less Divisive ]] paywalled
   . [[ https://www.are.na/block/10164782 | partial unblock ]]
   . [[ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23313007 | Facebook VP of Integrity response ]]
 .p143 Facebook public policy chief Joel Kaplan curbed some devisive content, rejected other recommendations
 .p144 [[ https://www.chrisbail.net/ | Chris Bail ]] [[ https://search.worldcat.org/title/1338668194 | Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing ]] Tigard 302.231 BAI
 [[ https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691203423/breaking-the-social-media-prism | essay ]]
 .p144 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siva_Vaidhyanathan | Siva Vaidhyanathan ]] Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us And Undermines Democracy Tigard 302.231 VAI
 .p146 devisiveness human nature, platforms aren't the cause
 .p146 [[ https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed10.asp | The Federalist Papers : No. 10]] The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man ... A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points ... divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good
 .p147 internet founder apologies: [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Williams_(Internet_entrepreneur) | Evan Williams Twitter co-founder ]], [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamath_Palihapitiya | Chamath Palihapitya Facebook ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Parker | Sean Parker Facebook ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Rosenstein | Justin Rosenstein Google ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg | Mark Zuckerberg Facebook ]]
 .p147 [[ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/10/15/64-of-americans-say-social-media-have-a-mostly-negative-effect-on-the-way-things-are-going-in-the-u-s-today/ | 64% of Americans say social media have a mostly negative effect ]]
 .p148 Internet nostalgia, lost paradise ... or human maladaption to speed?
 .p149 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_L._Ott | Brian L. Ott ]] [[ https://www.semanticscholar.org/reader/e45a5301e83f5dfcdb55cac7945b102946fc3941 | The Digital Mind ]]
 .p150 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey | John Dewey ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Public_and_Its_Problems | The Public and Its Problems ]] PSU 3rdFl JC251.D47 1946
 .p151 "Dewey told us what we want to hear. Lippmann told us what we need to hear."
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 . Ch. 7: '''The Dislocated I'''
 .p155 2020 March 10 WHO declares pandemic, social media increases
 .p156 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitch_(service) | Amazon Twitch ]] 1.7 billion hours in May
 .p157 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lockwood | Patricia Lockwood ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_One_Is_Talking_About_This | No One Is Talking About This ]] novel about social media
 .p157 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_G._Carr | Nicholas Carr ]] [[ https://pages.ucsd.edu/~mboyle/COGS11/COGS11-website/pdf-files/Phones-hijack-mind-WSJ.pdf | How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds ]] WSJ 2017
 .p158 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Horton_Cooley | Charles Cooley ]] [[ https://dn790005.ca.archive.org/0/items/cu31924032559316/cu31924032559316.pdf | Human Nature and the Social Order ]] the looking glass self
 .p158 The imaginations which people have of one another atre the ''solid facts'' of society.
 .p159 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James | William James ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Principles_of_Psychology | The Principles of Psychology 1890 ]][[ https://archive.org/details/principlesofpsyc1890jame/page/n9/mode/2up | online ]]
 .p160 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Herbert_Mead | George Herbert Mead ]] 1913 [[ https://search.worldcat.org/title/29452409 | The Social Self ]] also 1934 [[ https://archive.org/details/mindselfandsocie0000geor_p8e8/page/n9/mode/2up | Mind, Self, and Society ]]
 .p160 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erving_Goffman | Erving Goffman ]] 1959 The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life PSU HM291.G6 1959
  . we frame our behavior to influence the perceptions of others When "between performances", we attend to our inner voice. Essential to a healthy cohesive psyche
 .p161 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Meyrowitz | Joshua Meyrowitz ]] No sense of place : the impact of electronic media on social behavior PSU HM258 .M49 1985 Offsite
  ."Electronic media destroy the specialness of place and time" "What is happening almost anywhere can be happening wherever we are"
 .p163 ''passeggiata'' a leisurely walk or stroll, especially one taken in the evening
 .p163 disembodiment -> disorientation and [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysphoria | dysphoria ]]
 .p163 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jia_Tolentino | Jia Tolentino ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick_Mirror
 | Trick Mirror ]] 2019 Bvt Lib 973.93 TOL
 .p164 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danah_boyd | danah boyd ]] 2007 [[ https://www.danah.org/papers/NoneOfThisIsReal.pdf | None of this is Real: Identity and Participation in Friendster ]]
 .p164 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Wesch | Michael Wesch ]] [[ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/47353011_YouTube_and_You_Experiences_of_Self-awareness_in_the_Context_Collapse_of_the_Recording_Webcam#fullTextFileContent | YouTube and you: Experiences of self-awareness in the context collapse of the recording webcam ]]
 .p165 Young people shifted from Facebook to other platforms with selective access
 .p166 Typical internet user has 8 or 9 social media accounts, double the number a decade ago. Continuous preoccupation.
 .p167 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baudrillard | Jean Baudrillard ]] 1996 [[ https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Perfect_Crime.html?id=ygVpD2h29LwC | The Perfect Crime ]]
 .p167 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_E._Smith | Dorothy Smith ]] 1990 '''Texts, Facts, and Femininity''' Exploring the Relationships of Ruling : PSU HM24.S53923 1990
  .seemingly finds it noteworthy that we interact through documents ... or something
 .p169 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Anthony_Appiah | Kwame Anthony Appiah ]] The Lies That Bind 2018 WS TIG lib 302.5 APPIAH
  . contemporary character was defined by extrinsic markers, not social identity ... or something
  . this section makes no sense to me, perhaps because I am a nerd ... or something
 .p170 when kids interact online, they don't go out much
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 .p173 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Twenge | Jean Twenge ]] [[ https://books.google.com/books?id=UCS2EAAAQBAJ | 2023 book Generations ]] Bvtn+5 305.2 TWE
 .p176 fake Tourettes, mass social media-induced illness "sociogenic transmission of affliction"
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 . Ch. 8: '''Machines Who Speak'''
 .p180 1917, 51yo [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._B._Yeats | William Butler Yeats ]] married 25yo [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Georgie_Yeats | Georgie Hyde-Lees ]], honeymoon near [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sussex | Sussex ]]
 .p180 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashdown_Forest | Ashdown Forest ]] inspired [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._A._Milne | A. A. Milne's ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Acre_Wood | Hundred Acre Wood ]]
 .p181 3 years, hundreds of seances, thousands of pages of spirit writing, inspired Yeat's poems
 .p181 Carr's analogy to [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model | Large Language Models ]]
 .p182 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Durham_Peters | John Durham Peters ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaking_Into_The_Air | Speaking into to the Air ]] PSU P90.P388 1999 (unavail?)
 .p183 2022 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI | OpenAI ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT | ChatGPT ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman | Sam Altman ]] [[ https://www.safe.ai/statement-on-ai-risk | risk of extinction ]]
 .p183 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yann_LeCun | Yann LeCun ]] 2023 "AI Doomism is quickly becoming indistinguishable from an apocalyptic religion, complete with prophecies of imminent fire and brimstone caused by an omnipotent entity that doesn't actually exist" twitter April 1 2023
 .p184 grandiosity, hubris, and self-aggrandizement
 .p185 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wolfram | Stephen Wolfram ]] Feb14 2023 [[ https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/ | What Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work? ]]
 .p185 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Chiang | Ted Chiang ]] 2023 Feb 9 [[ https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web | ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web ]]
 .p186 Chatbot "hallucinations" - like a compression algorithm followed by interpolation
 .p187 "ChatGPT Renoirish painting of an anteater riding a motorcycle through Disney World"
  . come ON, people ... where is that image?
 .p187 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vauhini_Vara | Vauhini Vara ]] [[ https://www.thebeliever.net/ghosts/ | Ghosts ]]
 .p188 ''My Fair Bot'': AI doppleganger, assistant, [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familiar | familiar ]]
 .p192 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Jonze | Spike Jonze ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her_(2013_film) | Her ]] "You seem like a person but you're just a voice in a computer" "You'll get used to it"
 .p192 [[ https://system.privco.com/company/luka_private_stock_annual_report_financials| Luka ]] friendbot [[ https://replika.com/ | Replika ]]
 .p193 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Bendiksen | Jonas Bendiksen ]] [[ https://www.jonasbendiksen.com/books/the-book-of-veles | The Book of Veles ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veles,_North_Macedonia | North Macedonia ]]
 .p198 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Chesney | Bobby Chesney ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielle_Citron | Danielle Citron ]] 2019 [[ https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1640&context=faculty_scholarship | Deep Fakes: A Looming Challenge for Privacy, Democracy, and National Security ]]
 .p199 Yuri Mirolyubov [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Veles | Book of Veles ]] forgery
 .p201 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot) | Microsoft Tay 2016 ]] [[ https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2016/03/25/learning-tays-introduction/ | corrupted ]] replaced with [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zo_(bot) | Zo ]] originally based on [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaoice | Microsoft Xiaoice 2014 ]]
 .p202 for sixhttps://www.amazon.com/Social-Photo-Photography-Media/dp/1788730917 months 50 contractors mistrained [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-4 | GPT-4 ]] a thousand more retrained and armored it against mischief
 . The Atlantic magazine September 2023 ''Inside the Revolution'' by Ross Andersen (paywall)
 .p202 OpenAI "socio-technical" filtered input data to remove offensive images and text
 .p203 Amazon [[ https://gemini.google.com/app | Gemini Chatbot ]] mistrained, generated images of women in 1800s Senate, Asians Blacks and women as 1943 Nazi soldiers
 .p204 Musk's X (renamed Twitter) large language model [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAI_(company) | !xAI ]]
  . Musk reshaped Twitter to his biases
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 . Ch. 9: '''World without World'''
 .p206 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Andreessen | Mark Andreessen ]] 1993 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCSA_Mosaic | Mosaic ]] 1995 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape | Netscape ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opsware | Loudcloud -> Opsware ]]
 .p207 2011 WSJ [[ https://a16z.com/why-software-is-eating-the-world/ | Software is eating the world ]] 2023 blog [[ https://a16z.com/ai-will-save-the-world/ | AI will save the world ]]
 .p207 [[ https://niccolo.substack.com/p/the-dubrovnik-interviews-marc-andreessen | The Dubrovnik Interviews: Marc Andreessen - Interviewed by a Retard ]] Niccolo Soldo May 31, 2021
 .p208 MA: tiny "Reality Privileged" elite, masses better off with virtual reality
 .p208 [[ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chiliastic | chiliastic ]] fervor, transcendental consumerism
 .p209 Mark Zuckerberg Meta [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon_Worlds | Horizon Worlds ]]
 .p210 Gaze is a register of attention
 .p211 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superbloom | superbloom ]] Flowergeddon
 .p212 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Flynn_(academic) | James R. Flynn ]] 2012 [[ https://www.google.com/books/edition/Are_We_Getting_Smarter/Z_ykOVpRccChl=en&gbpv=1&dq=inauthor:%22James+R.+Flynn%22&printsec=frontcover | Are We Getting Smarter? Rising IQ in the Twenty-First Century ]]
  . PSU BF431.F565 2012 / Central 153.9309 F6485a 2012
 .p212 IQ scores rose as people learned to work puzzles mentally
 .p213 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake | William Blake ]] [[ https://www.blakearchive.org/ | Blake Archive ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_of_Innocence_and_of_Experience | Songs of Innocence and of Experience ]]
 .p214 [[ https://www.nathanjurgenson.com/ | Nathan Jurgenson ]] 2019 [[ https://www.amazon.com/Social-Photo-Photography-Media/dp/1788730917 | The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media ]]
 .p215 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baudrillard | Jean Baudrillard ]] 1976 [[ https://search.worldcat.org/title/959273269 | Symbolic Exchange and Death ]]
 .p216 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshana_Zuboff | Shoshana Zuboff ]] 2019 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Surveillance_Capitalism | The Age of Surveillance Capitalism ]] CMill Tig +5 306.3 ZUB
  . hijacked, kidnapped, manipulated ... no says Carr, we are complicit and having fun
 .p217 we explore environment "from nuts to knowledge" [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaak_Panksepp | Jaak Panksepp ]]
  . [[ https://search.worldcat.org/title/56695642?oclcNum=56695642 | Affective Neuroscience ]] 1998
 .p218 TV -> social media active participation
 .p219 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_McGonigal | Jane McGonigal ]] 2011 [[ https://search.worldcat.org/title/646111856 | Reality is Broken ]] Cmill 306.487 MCGONIGAL
 .p220 [[ https://www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-technology-center/people/anton-barba-kay/ | Antón Barba-Kay ]] 2023 [[ https://search.worldcat.org/title/1356406955 | A Web of Our Own Making ]]
 .p221 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey | John Dewey ]] 1927 [[ https://search.worldcat.org/title/494056 | The Public and Its Problems ]]
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 . Ch. 10: '''Dr. Johnson's Rock'''
 .p222 1952 Oct 19 Frank Walsh shoots television [[ https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/10/21/93583528.html?pageNumber=31 | NYT ]]
 .p223 appeared on game show [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike_It_Rich_(1947_game_show) | Strike It Rich ]] and won a TV.
 .p223 [[ https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/why-elvis-shot-this-tv-and-other-photos-of-his-exhibit | Elvis shot TVs and buried them at Graceland ]]
 .p224 European law provide citizens with more control, but behavior remains the same.
 .p225 [[ https://www1.villanova.edu/university/law/faculty-scholarship/faculty-directory/profiles/BrettFrischmann.html | Brett Frischmann ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Benesch | Susan Benesch ]] 2023 [[ https://yjolt.org/sites/default/files/frischmann_benesch.friction-in-design_regulation.376.pdf | Friction-In-Design Regulation ]]
 .p227 Enforced Friction. Free speech concerns? How about offshoring concerns?
 .p229 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Berkeley | George Berkeley ]] 1710 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Treatise_Concerning_the_Principles_of_Human_Knowledge | Treatise concerning the Principles of Knowledge ]]
 .p229 described as ingenious sophistry by [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Boswell | James Boswell ]] to [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson | Samuel Johnson ]], who kicked (stomped?) a stone to "refute it thus".
 .p230 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Brooks | Rodney Brooks ]] when a robot explores the world like a child, "the need for symbolic representations soon fades entirely"
  .cite 9, which references a seemingly nonexistent IEEE Spectrum article
  .[[ https://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/papers/elephants.pdf | perhaps this 1990 paper is a better cite ]]

aSocialMedia

Superbloom

How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart

Nicholas Carr 2025 . Beaverton Lib 302.231 CARR

  • Nicholas Carr

  • 2004 book: Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage
  • 2008 book: The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google
  • 2010 book: The Shallows
  • 2014 book: The Glass Cage: Automation and Us
  • 2016 book: Utopia Is Creepy: and Other Provocations

  • Many references to "our phones" ... prefer email and letters. No dodopaddle, carry an ancient pushbutton phone for emergencies. Still, it is important to know what's shriveling the psyches of half the world; the Carr book sheds some light.

age 15 to 24

2012

2018

enjoy dangerous things

50%

38%

like to take risks sometimes

46%

34%

danger and risk stats swapped???

socializing in person with friends

133

67

minutes per day

social activities

238

189

minutes per day

prefer screen to in-person

1/2

2/3

feel lonely

23%

42%

do not enjoy life

<25%

~50%

major episode of depression

8%

16%

self harm +188% girls, +37% boys

aSocialMedia (last edited 2025-03-16 09:03:41 by KeithLofstrom)