Author: robert.adlington

For these Austrian and Austrian-related thinkers, knowledge is about how different parts of a system fit together, rather than being a homegeneous metric easily expressed on a linear scale.  There is no legible way to assess the smarts of any single unit in the system, taken on its own. Furthermore, there are many “walls,” meaning…

“I know everything about humankind,” he thinks, still dreaming, and he resolves to reject both Settembrini and Naphta—or rather, to reject the stark choice between life and death, illness and health, recognizing that “man is the master of contradictions, they occur through him, and so he is more noble than they.” During his years on…

Consumers hardly ever realize it, but they hold traditional news media to vastly higher standards of accurate and ethical behavior than practically every other information source they encounter, even when they’ve started relying on those other information sources instead of the news media. It’s good consumers hold journalism to high standards. The problem here is…

Users relate to the AI in different ways: Tools. Users control AI to generate something. Copilots. The AI works alongside the user in an app in multiple ways. Agents. The AI has some autonomy over how it approaches a task. Chat. The user talks to the AI as a peer in real-time. — Read on…

The story of the our networked age is noise. Data rot. Lossy compression. Entropy. Message attenuation over distance and time. Lost in translation. And yet – with modern gen-AI – something new: Novelty on the wire. Originality from… somewhere? — Read on interconnected.org/home/2024/07/26/cci

We’re no longer in a world of ballet stories told with stylised mice; we’re in a world of mice. — Read on interconnected.org/home/2024/08/16/bombadil

The Smith/Party/Big Brother triad in 1984 is the character/reader/author triad. The world is a book. That’s why the past can be so fluid: there is no time in books; no reality except that communicated in the current line of text. — Read on interconnected.org/home/2023/09/08/razor

at some point ads will be indistinguishable from content. You can already see the outlines of that given I’ve discussed both generative ads and generative content; they’re the same thing! That image that is personalized to you just might happen to include a sweater or a belt that Meta knows you probably want; simply click-to-buy.…

Avatar therapy may help in treating mental health conditions beyond psychosis. Preliminary research from Ward’s team with an avatar embodying the “anorexic voice” has shown it to be a promising intervention for eating disorders. Glenthøj is researching VR-based avatar therapy for obsessive compulsive disorder. Ward also wants to investigate whether dialogues with avatars could help…