faust

The boundaries between reality and fiction, and between human and artificial, are becoming increasingly blurred and indistinguishable.

AI-generated media, and bots contribute to 'deep doubt'. 

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/due-to-ai-fakes-the-deep-doubt-era-is-here/

In a digital world where bots and generative AI continues to grow, it becomes flooded with digital objects that you don't know if they are real or fiction. 

You start to get lost in an ocean of information. I think that outlook and orientation in your digital world gets all fuzzy, because you lose you can't reference yourself against anything. I think this is why people say you need to go touch grass, sometimes its because we need to orient ourselves again properly, and figure out where we are in space.

Unfortunately, I think this is just going to get worse

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks

I often think the answer is for each of us to write our own version of The Peregrine by J.A. Baker—find something in nature and observe it deeply for a decade.

Critics of Walden by Thoreau may argue it's absurd to understand humanity through isolation in the wilderness. I suspect a modern critique applies to those who detach from an online life.

Perhaps we need a service like the Sunday paper, offering a digest of the week's online madness, with summaries, comments, and metrics. I'll need to unplug soon. I feel it.