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Maybe twenty years ago, the alternative to my 100,000 crowd-sourced editors was a PhD expert, or Edward R. Murrow [*citation needed*]. But today, I’m not looking so bad, huh? Absolute best case, the LLM-generated legal advice you get is merely plagiarizing, probably from me. But more likely, it’s a mish-mash of Reddit posts filtered through an algorithm coded by a Belarusian teenager on the run from Interpol.

Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology

Tom Ellison

The graveyard of data at our fingertips is not really memory as we’ve known it, and it’s not really history — it’s something new and chaotic, something eerily trans-human. The internet is like a time machine that’s bringing back the ghosts of our ancestors. (For the skeptics out there: think of a ghost as the remnants of information patterns that were once produced by a living person). And these ghosts have a lot of unfinished business (bones to pick, allies to avenge, scores to settle) that make it hard to move forward.

How Digital Media Distorts Our Sense of Time

aaronzlewis.com

By observing the words our mind is speaking to us, we are actively separating from our thoughts, getting them out in front of us, into view—creating an us and an it. In so doing, we’re shifting our perspective so we are now the awareness that sees the thoughts, while the thoughts become objects appearing in front of and within us.

Can't Stop Thinking

Colier, Nancy

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