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A key takeaway is that while the replication of systems of cultural narrative are the center of gravity, truth itself is (or becomes) incidental to the main game of communications system self-replication. Institutional “doom scrolling” is a generative method by which these technological systems productively interdict and recursively revivify themselves in and as a shared human experience of antithetical entropy.
Human beings are quite willingly swept away by the simplistic abstractions and descriptive mechanisms through which we attempt to understand this complex, changing and often confusing world. Our cognitive and cultural reflex is to lash ourselves to the mast of whichever ascendant vocabulary and idiom of communication most accurately and concisely encodes existential discomfort and explanatory confusion regarding the persistent dissonance that accelerating change inevitably brings.
It is worth considering that the adoption of partial models and incomplete positions is not simply an erroneous artefact or catalytic byproduct of sociotechnical change. This bias and orientation towards the cultivation of paranoiac anxieties and existential fear is one channel for the reproduction of the productive uncertainties through whichΒ communicationsΒ systems and political philosophies endless revivify, restructure and self-validate themselves.
Cultural communications system formation, sustainment and self-propagation is an abstract and largely autonomous process that tends to occur by any and all methods and means possible. The cultural artefacts and narratives that haunt nominal “elites” are no less than remedial as lowest common denominator threads of narrative communications system self-propagation.
Our human reflex seems to be to reproduce the stories as “lowest common denominator” conceptual vocabularies without any kind of sufficient understanding of what they represent. Large Language Models should, ironically, further amplify and sustain narrative pathologies in this context.
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