"nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself"
How large is the public sphere? How large can it reasonably be? If we assume that the public sphere is at least to some degree rooted in our biological nature, it seems as if we could answer the question partially by looking at how large our social networks reasonably can be. This in turn leads… Continue reading On the size of disagreement and the public sphere
There are now a number of reviews and summing up notes about the most impactful papers in AI in 2020. Data Science Central has a nice one - and also links to a few others. It is interesting to look at these to see what is highlighted and what is missing. I, for one, was… Continue reading Undervalued aspects of artificial intelligence
This February it is 10 years since I defended my doctoral thesis on what I then called the Noise Society. The main idea was that the idea of an orderly, domesticated and controllable information society - modeled on the post-industrial visions of Bell and others - probably was wrongheaded, and that we would see a… Continue reading Notes on attention, fake news and noise #3: The Noise Society 10 years later