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Bidirectional belief amplification schematic. As interaction continues, (e.g. paranoid) beliefs are amplified in both the user and chatbot responses. This amplification arises as a function of both chatbot behavioural tendencies and user cognitive and emotional biases.
Technological Folie a Deux - Google Docs
arxiv.org
As this recursive expression of the anaesthetic takes hold of the situation, having your neighborhood mapped by satellites and filmed by drones and then turned to rubble is only the first step of a process which then compels the ruins and death and destruction to be documented and circulated online. Life and death come to *make sense* only as data points within a military campaign, only as violent blips to be recognized and registered within the same genocidal apparatus that effectuates them.
Anaesthetic Violence
illwill.com
Depression is endemic. It is the condition most dealt with by the National Health Service, and is afflicting people at increasingly younger ages.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
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