Interview with Thi Nguyen
08 Dec 2022 - 08 Dec 2022
- via dm Games: Agency as Art
- food porn, moral outrage porn – defining this
- real moral outrage (and sex) is not bad, but the porn version displaces the real, simplifying it for the form of immediate gratification.
- don't use the term virtue signalling but they are talking about it.
- superstimulators.
- gurus as providing intellectual junk food.
- academic specialization means we don't really understand much. Gurus sell back that feeling of being a genuine polymath.
- Allison Gopnick, Understanding as Orgasm (must check that out)
- the feeling of clarity, the aha moment – time to stop thinking
- This has a dirty-Minsky feel to it
- so faking understanding is a superstimulator – that's insight porn (and gurus are purveyors of same)
- Crying of Lot 49 and other conspiracy stuff
- understanding: facts are no longer atomic, they cohere in a reinforcing way
- ref to The Knowledge Machine which I really want to read.
- echo chambers vs. filter bubbles.
- epistemic traps
- Connection with game design – gds are good at presenting users with illusion of choice.