Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration 393) James Bridle: Artificial intelligence and the fallacy of a computerizable world
Mar 30, 2023
In this discussion, James Bridle, a writer and technologist renowned for works like New Dark Age and Ways of Being, dives deep into the complexities of modern technology. He critiques the simplification of user interfaces that mask intricate systems and the dangers of treating the world as a computable model. Bridle explores how corporations can embody their own intelligence, critiques the biases in historical data, and challenges us to redefine intelligence through relational and embodied experiences rather than rigid metrics.
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Complexity Hidden By Design
- Modern technologies hide complexity by design, reducing users' awareness of systemic costs and harms.
- This obscuring creates psychic harm and prevents people from understanding the systems shaping their lives.
Look For Hidden Systems Yourself
- If you're curious about hidden systems, go look for how they work: the code and structures are often accessible.
- Use that access to reframe technology as transparent rather than resigned to opacity.
The Computable World Fallacy
- The computational mindset assumes the world is fully knowable and controllable via data and categorization.
- That worldview destroys what it claims to know because it severs relationships and context essential to life.
