So this is why it's important to cram your head full of information, and to record it when new information crosses with old information.
I'm currently reading "The Outrage Machine" by Tobias Rose-Stockwell. It's been enlightening. He promises solutions to curbing or understanding or eliminating the outrage we feel on social media (I'm not exactly sure what'll happen, as I'm still doing the reading).
"Our agency is being manipulated and scaled back, app by app, notification by notification. The recognition of this collective interference, and our part in it, is something akin to a mass existential crisis. This kind of manipulation challenges our basic understanding of human choice. It shows how these predictive systems are just one step away from being systems of control "
~Tobias Rose-Stockwell, "The Outrage Machine"
What he said reminded me of something from Elder David A. Bednar's "Things as They Really Are 2.0" speech, which he gave back in November.
"The ease of use, perceived accuracy, and rapid response time that characterize artificial intelligence can create a potentially beguiling, addictive, and suffocating influence on the exercise of our moral agency. Because AI is cloaked in the credibility and promises of scientific progress, we might naively be seduced into surrendering our precious moral agency to a technology that can only think telestial. By so doing, we may gradually be transformed from agents who can act into objects that are only acted upon."
~Elder David A. Bednar, "Things as They Really Are 2.0"
Tie what you know with what you're learning. That helps you develop a bigger picture of things.
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