{"id":151,"date":"2020-09-07T03:34:06","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T03:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linas.org\/blog\/?p=151"},"modified":"2020-12-19T04:05:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T04:05:23","slug":"meta-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linas.org\/blog\/2020\/09\/meta-reading-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Reading List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Notable stuff I&#8217;ve stumbled across, worth checking out.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flugschriften.com\/2020\/03\/24\/the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet-by-bogna-konior\/\">The\u00a0 Dark Forest Theory of the Internet<\/a> by Bogna Konior. If <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-155 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/linas.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/f6-minicover-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" \/>you just search for the title, you&#8217;ll get lots of hits to &#8230; something else. The one you want to read is this one: because Bogna is a far superior author.\u00a0 What&#8217;s it about? Well, clearly inspired by the Liu Cixin books.\u00a0 Written as a companion piece to a sculpture:\u00a0 Black Market : Zero Hedge (2019) by Andrej \u0160kufca.\u00a0 Wait, <em>what&#8217;s it about?<\/em> Oh, right. Its about the kinds of things I sometimes write about. In my other posts here.\u00a0 Except Bogna writes better than I do.\u00a0 So there. It&#8217;s about that. (7 Sept 2020)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2020\/12\/facebook-doomsday-machine\/617384\/\">Facebook is a Doomsday Machine<\/a>\u00a0by Adrienne LaFrance\u00a0 Since the title is left-explanatory, I decided to wallow in photos of decommissioned Titan nuclear missile silos instead.\u00a0 Afterwards, I forced myself to read the article. It mostly states the obvious, if you think about such things, but let me re-iterate: 1) the algos drive engagement, and that means promoting extremist posts. 2) Zuckerberg is the most powerful man in the world. (yes, he&#8217;s more powerful that the POTUS. Good luck with that, Biden. You&#8217;re screwed. We&#8217;re screwed. We&#8217;re all screwed.)\u00a0 3) His activities are detrimental to humankind. 4) There&#8217;s pretty much nothing we can do about it.\u00a0 5) Lots of other curious commentary.\u00a0 Misses the point that we are living in a phase change. But whatever, that&#8217;s a topic too big, too abstract.\u00a0 (18 Dec 2020)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notable stuff I&#8217;ve stumbled across, worth checking out. The\u00a0 Dark Forest Theory of the Internet by Bogna Konior. If you just search for the title, you&#8217;ll get lots of hits to &#8230; something else. The one you want to read is this one: because Bogna is a far superior author.\u00a0 What&#8217;s it about? Well, clearly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linas.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linas.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linas.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linas.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linas.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/linas.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/linas.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linas.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linas.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linas.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}