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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 157 “We are the media now!” So we hear. Much of that media is social media, and social media is a psychological and political warfare battlespace. More than that, it’s incredibly fake. What we see there is mostly a well-crafted illusion meant to distort our perceptions of social and political reality. In this short episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay walks you through some of the many ways what we see on social media simply cannot be taken at face value. Join him for an unsettling look behind the

An Interview with Christoph. You can also listen on Spotify here; on iTunes here and on most podcast apps. Shownotes General: Find Christoph on Twitter @Halalcoholism twitter.com/Halalcoholism?ref_s…erp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor References: Jonathan Haidt on… View Post The post The Crazy Culture of Twitter appeared first on Areo.

Technology has now made us immortal. Stored in the cloud, on smartphones, on YouTube channels and on social media accounts, there is an easily accessible record of everything we have… View Post The post Techno-Immortality appeared first on Areo.

In the summer of 2020, at the height of the Covid pandemic, America was raging at the death of George Floyd and violent protests took place in multiple cities. In… View Post The post The Curious Leaderlessness of Modern Movements appeared first on Areo.

We are a species defined by our tools. Our cognition extends beyond our fingers, branching into the technology we hold and the institutions we build. But everything we wield changes us in turn. If we want to make sense of where we find ourselves in this moment in history, we can begin by exploring the unique relationship we have with what we build. It can show us where we come from, and where we might be headed.As the US election approaches and COVID forces lockdowns around the world, we cloister inside and spend more time online. And as we do, many

I happen to be a bit of a student of history. As such, I’ve noticed that what we are witnessing in the United States (and much of the West, as I understand it) is a case study in the break down of civil society and the emergence of civil conflict. I imagine that if you could see into the living rooms and street corners of the American, French and Russian revolutions or the American, Spanish or English Civil Wars, you would find a lot that is similar to the current dynamic.But this time something new is happening. This time, huge portions

It appears that at long last the popular sentiment seems to be boiling with enough intensity to (maybe) do something about the problem of social media.Good. It is high time.But, even if it turns out that we have reached the point where we are ready to do something, we come face to face with the reasonably difficult question of what we should do. And, in order to know what we should do, we must first have a good understand of what is, in fact, the matter.I have spent a great deal of time over the past several decades endeavoring to boil down the

I would like to explore what I think is a useful distinction between “thinking” and a quite different phenomenon that might be best referred to as a “simulation of thinking”.First a quick clarification of two core concepts. This is easy.If you remember learning how to drive a car or ride a bike, you likely recall transitioning from the uncertain, unsure, exploratory moments of early learning to the increasingly effortless, unconscious, process that now allows you to drive from work to home without even noticing that you did so.In the first case (learning) we are in a costly, awkward and error prone “explore”