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Shallow Feedback Hollows You Out
the actually scary thing about social media
My brother handed me a copy of The Black Swan twelve years ago and it was a revelation, it blew my intellectual world open - Taleb seemed the perfect embodiment of the gentleman-scholar I’d always hoped to become. And so the exact subconscious process that motivated him to write compelling, original prose now reshapes his thoughts to endlessly repeat the most meme-able parts of his worldview for the entertainment of his marginal reader. Maybe it’s actually very good that we have some high-status stochastic parrots running around constantly generating variations on “clean your room” and “don’t trust formal models just because a smart Harvard professor invented them” and “superintelligent machines might kill us all soon”.
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