Pandora's Box of New Politics: Victory of Sensibility over Reason

Llewellyn 2022-03-23 09:03:08

The development of algorithms has affected our lives so profoundly. When people are accurately pushed their preferred speech and preferred thoughts, real thinking will become more and more lacking. What is the meaning of democracy? Democratic voting is no longer a consideration of interests, but a psychological tactic and algorithmic competition. It seems democratic, but in fact it has become a puppet.

But not only in politics, but in other areas as well. We are always calculated by algorithms, and often just blindly pursue our favorite concepts, ideas and things, which not only brings laziness in thinking, but also misses many opportunities for inclusiveness, understanding and expansion, and the phenomenon of group polarization becomes more and more obvious.

Technology and human beings, who will control who?

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  • Dominic Cummings: ...as a global society we are entering a series of profound economic, cultural, social and political transitions, the like of which the world has never seen: massive increase in resource requirements, rising tide of religious extremism, the synthesis of the generational inequalities in the West on an historic level.

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    Dominic Cummings: Great Britain makes a noise. Did you know that?