Nivan Bagchi’s Reviews > Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI > Status Update
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Takeaways till now
1) Stories & Lists create civilizations
2) Information Network can create order, that is completely bereft of truth. Books created an ecosystem of medieval witch hunters who wrote pamphlets & guidelines about their activities.
3) Better Information Networks have self correcting mechanisms: Christianity doesn't know how to deal with homosexuality. Stalinism led to the death of Stalin
— Jan 10, 2025 10:45AM
Takeaways till now
1) Stories & Lists create civilizations
2) Information Network can create order, that is completely bereft of truth. Books created an ecosystem of medieval witch hunters who wrote pamphlets & guidelines about their activities.
3) Better Information Networks have self correcting mechanisms: Christianity doesn't know how to deal with homosexuality. Stalinism led to the death of Stalin
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Nivan Bagchi
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Two Key Takeaways:
Alignment Problem: rewarding fort A while wanting B. Facebook might want social good but rewards user engagement. This led to the
Intersubjective computer realities: Computers can also be prone to errors. They also create mythologies. For instance, Women being denied jobs by Amazon algorithm because of past data showing they were not ideal fit for the role.
— Jan 16, 2025 10:35AM
Alignment Problem: rewarding fort A while wanting B. Facebook might want social good but rewards user engagement. This led to the
Intersubjective computer realities: Computers can also be prone to errors. They also create mythologies. For instance, Women being denied jobs by Amazon algorithm because of past data showing they were not ideal fit for the role.
Nivan Bagchi
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With the rise of surveillance capitalism through AI, we will be monitored for our every actions.
Like in China's social credit scheme we will get jobs not just on the basis of merits, but also on the number of visits we make to our parents and the kind of friends we have in life. It will be an all encompassing totalitarian system that is unparalleled in history.
— Jan 15, 2025 04:39AM
Like in China's social credit scheme we will get jobs not just on the basis of merits, but also on the number of visits we make to our parents and the kind of friends we have in life. It will be an all encompassing totalitarian system that is unparalleled in history.
