Writing is thinking. Don’t let AI tell you otherwise.
Using AI to “express” your thoughts misses the whole point of writing. We write to have an externalized object to which we can direct thinking.
What contestivism reveals about the post-truth era
What is perceived as a post-truth era is not a breakdown but an exposure of ongoing meaning contests within society. Contestivism reveals that individuals assert their truths in a digital landscape, amplifying existing tensions in understanding reality. This situation reflects the human struggle for existential recognition rather than a collapse of shared truths.
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Partial information is bad communication: When initiatives meant to develop communities do the exact opposite
Partial information creates false assumptions. In an environment where consumers believe all cards are on the table when they’re not, information initiatives can introduce chaos and create more problems that they solve.
Disinformation = Exponential uncertainty?
Here’s a mathematical puzzle for information theorists. If one bit of information equals one bit of negative uncertainty, then what does one bit of disinformation yield? Surely, it goes the other way and creates uncertainty, but by how much? Is it a matter of reversing the signs? The point of the first equation is to…
Information disorder: The unintended consequence of an information society
The Information Age was touted as a leap forward in modernity from the Industrial Age. It was a massive development from when factory workers served as the lifeblood of Western economies, on the backs of whom capitalists made their fortunes. The digital revolution wrestled some of the power away from the owners of the means…
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