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the resultant flood of text and images enabled by zero marginal distribution is the prerequisite for models that unbundle the creation of an idea and its substantiation.
The AI Unbundling
Ben Thompson
The imagistic minds in “Visual Thinking” can seem glamorous compared with the verbal ones depicted in “[Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It](https://www.amazon.com/Chatter-Voice-Head-Matters-Harness/dp/0525575235/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1673282355&sr=1-1),” by Ethan Kross, a psychologist and neuroscientist who teaches at the University of Michigan. Kross is interested in what’s known as the phonological loop—a neural system, consisting of an “inner ear” and an “inner voice,” that serves as a “clearinghouse for everything related to words that occurs around us in the present.” If Grandin’s visual thinkers are attending Cirque du Soleil, then Kross’s verbal thinkers are stuck at an Off Broadway one-man show. It’s just one long monologue.
How Should We Think About Our Different Styles of Thinking? | The New Yorker
Joshua Rothman
As Michael Schudson pointed out in “[Discovering the News](https://www.amazon.com/Discovering-News-History-American-Newspapers/dp/0465016669/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Discovering+the+News&qid=1675095630&s=books&sr=1-1)” (1978), the notion that good journalism is “objective”—that is, nonpartisan and unopinionated—emerged only around the start of the twentieth century. Schudson thought that it arose as a response to growing skepticism about the whole idea of stable and reliable truths. The standard of objectivity, as he put it, “was not the final expression of a belief in facts but the assertion of a method designed for a world in which even facts could not be trusted. . . . Journalists came to believe in objectivity, to the extent that they did, because they wanted to, needed to, were forced by ordinary human aspiration to seek escape from their own deep convictions of doubt and drift.” In other words, objectivity was a problematic concept from the start.
When Americans Lost Faith in the News | The New Yorker
Louis Menand
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