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“Tech for Thinking” by sarahconstantin


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Midjourney, “tech for thinking, artificial intelligence, networks, noosphere, self-organizing decentralized knowledge, library of the future, collective intelligence”

My post on Neutrality was kind of abstract, and I think it's time to do a follow-up that's more concrete.

Specifically, the place where I think there's something to be done is in information technology, and the ways it shapes the perceived “world”.

One way of looking at this: we had the institutional media era in the 20th century (newspapers and magazines, book publishers, broadcast television and radio), then the “Web 2.0” era of blogs and social media as more and more of the world joined the Internet, and now we may be at the beginning of a new information paradigm that's mediated by LLMs.

Some people are interested in making that new information paradigm “good” in some sense.

As I said earlier:

[most media & internet tech today] just isn’t prepared [...]

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June 23rd, 2025

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HRWTs6BS7KJTwJKoM/tech-for-thinking

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