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2title: February 1st, 2024
3date: 2024-02-01, 23:30:52 -08:00
4section: journal
5link: https://kneelingbus.substack.com/p/the-internets-meaning-crisis
6tags:
7 - AI
8 - parasocial
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10Three quotes from [“The Internets Meaning Crisis”, by Kneeling Bus](https://kneelingbus.substack.com/p/the-internets-meaning-crisis):
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12> The average human living today sees more things they don’t care about in one week than a medieval peasant did in their entire lifetime.
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14Parasocial media as antidote to AI content:
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16> As AI normalizes the idea of human-free content creation, parasocial media merits appreciation: We gravitate toward work that foregrounds its creator because that person is often the ultimate reason we’re interested in the work, directly or indirectly
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18Increasingly baroque personal info filter systems:
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20> It’s increasingly urgent to develop an effective personal system for keeping the digital entropy at bay, even if it’s as simple as “haphazardly ignore most of what comes through.”
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