03 / September 22
Degrade the Threads
“We’re all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening, in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit.”
— Cory Doctorow
Topics
Enshittification; consensus reality vs. burbclaves; devolution, slurp juice, mutation, degens, degraded threads; AI slopworld and Baudrillard’s Evil Demon of Images; New Memory, the (a)Social (de)Construction of Reality; Edward Bernays, propaganda; social engineering, parasociality; Philip K. Dick, Simulationism; the Simulation Hypothesis; Cambridge Analytica; RenTech, NLP, and LLMs; recursion and backpropagation in ML
Readings
Additional Reading
Lab
LLMs: local LLMs, ChatGPT, et al, coding with LLMs