alt Hacker NewsNuanced opinions don't get clicks and don't fit in tweets. Algorithms hate context.
We've created a communications system bottlenecked by virality and short form text and video in which all nuance and context is stripped from everything.
This, far far more than anything AI is doing, is what's making us dumber.
Thank you. I always thought the “we are getting dumber” was happening way before AI. There is now like 3-4 social media giants where anything viral is reposted across them all so it is really like one global “feed” of information.