Anyone else's brain become bulimic in the infobese environment? I dump info so fast these days it's sometimes hard to remember even the subject of what I consume, much less the content.
Here's the thing that worries me... Our brains have over 200 cognitive biases designed to process four types of things.
1. Dealing with two much information (clustering, grouping, hueristics)
2. Acting without enough context (the information we get is vapid)
3. Ability to acting quickly (dont get eaten by the lion)
4. Knowing what to remember (main thrust of your point)
The pile of vapid information that constantly flows past and the demand to be on top of it whil figuring out how to remember the important bits mean we layer at least four biases on almost everything we read...
I don't believe stacked biases lead to a central, common, ground. I think they angle us toward the edges. Twitter is a great example. Too much information, not enough meaning, need to act fast to trend, and purging the rubbish. The end state is that Twitter is heavily polarized.
Just my musings on the topic. (I'm actually starting to write an essay about this just now as well.
Infobese. That's a topic to write about specifically when it comes to how we apply our cognitive biased to sort through so much of it.
Anyone else's brain become bulimic in the infobese environment? I dump info so fast these days it's sometimes hard to remember even the subject of what I consume, much less the content.
Intake the approach, like with food, to curate my ingestion.
The romans thought it was classy and sophisticated to overeat then quietly vomit so you could return for more food at big dinner parties.
Maybe we're the same way? We keep coming back to the information trough to show how smart we are, even though we just puke it up and lose it later.
Here's the thing that worries me... Our brains have over 200 cognitive biases designed to process four types of things.
1. Dealing with two much information (clustering, grouping, hueristics)
2. Acting without enough context (the information we get is vapid)
3. Ability to acting quickly (dont get eaten by the lion)
4. Knowing what to remember (main thrust of your point)
The pile of vapid information that constantly flows past and the demand to be on top of it whil figuring out how to remember the important bits mean we layer at least four biases on almost everything we read...
I don't believe stacked biases lead to a central, common, ground. I think they angle us toward the edges. Twitter is a great example. Too much information, not enough meaning, need to act fast to trend, and purging the rubbish. The end state is that Twitter is heavily polarized.
Just my musings on the topic. (I'm actually starting to write an essay about this just now as well.
Thanks for the rec!