Google Maps changes how you look at the world
Current mapping technologies distort our wayfinding instincts out of their natural balance between "egocentric" (process-oriented) and "allocentric" (context-oriented) navigational modes.
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Current mapping technologies distort our wayfinding instincts out of their natural balance between "egocentric" (process-oriented) and "allocentric" (context-oriented) navigational modes.
The alt-right's intellectual firepower comes in part from a Thiel-funded Silicon Valley think-tank that has promoted the idea that reality is a simulation run by ultra-powerful computers from the future. After all, if reality's a simulation, why bother worrying about homelessness?
The best article about the Machine Intelligence Research Institute is "Come With Us If You Want to Live," which nails through live reporting exactly how nihilistic the rationality fetish can get.
But the whole notion is sophomoric stonerism. Computers don't have access to a higher reality: "Empirically, increasing computational power will not necessarily transform the water of computer games into the wine of a full-fledged simulated world."
Nov 22, 2016We don’t recognize advanced life because it forms an integral and unsuspicious part of what we’ve considered to be the natural world.
↩︎ Nautilus
Nov 22, 2016Our production of the world, our interpretation of it, what we've been told to experience and what we've been told we have to do, both bore and distress me. I don't want to live in someone else's dream.
↩︎ University of Arizona