{"id":1389,"date":"2023-06-22T11:34:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T11:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2023-12-05T11:42:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T11:42:59","slug":"itsnotjustyourattention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/itsnotjustyourattention\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning: It&#8217;s Not Just Your Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~ Herbert Simon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a prescient quality to the words above made in 1971, made by a pioneering figure in cognitive sciences and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is not new news that our attention is up for grabs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to Joe Rogan&#8217;s calling out the potential &#8220;massive distraction&#8221; of AR glasses, while Mark Zuckerberg actually thinks it&#8217;s a good idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Joe Rogan stuns Mark Zuckerberg\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dhbhKDF7jhY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What is an Algorithm?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Cathy O\u2019 Neil, author of&nbsp;<em>Weapons of Math Destruction<\/em>&nbsp;describes algorithms as using historical information to make predictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If our future is asymmetrically left to people who owns the code, we are going to get a world that is designed for people who shaped Instagram, TikTok, Twitter and the like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joe Rogan&#8217;s response should also be our responses:&nbsp;<strong>Why should we let our attention be stolen, every day, every other minute?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there is a greater worry. The warning we must take heed is not only that our attention and time is lost. More insidiously, our&nbsp;<strong>intentions<\/strong>&nbsp;are getting thwarted and pushed to the wayside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychological","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1404,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions\/1404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}