A fundamental design principle for techno optimists. How we need to move towards friction in digital culture. By Luna Maurer & Roel Wouters

AI indulges us, consumes us. Its appeal gives us the comforts and conveniences we learn to seek. To get satisfaction from interaction with a model, you need to perform your predictable self. It becomes almost impossible to step out, to live frictionfully. Our autonomy is at stake.

Philosopher Miriam Rasch argues that complete removal of friction means standing still. A completely predictable future is no future, but a continuous present. In a world where even our deepest desires can be foreseen, where we have lost our autonomy, we long for what remains beyond the domain of data, algorithms and databases and AI.

  • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.devEnglish
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    3 months ago

    This article could do with a Bottom Line Up Front. I got halfway through the page and I still had no idea what problem it was trying to solve by adding new problems.

    • smallpatatas@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Well, thanks for not incorrectly calling the post spam and downvoting it at least lol

        • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.devEnglish
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          3 months ago

          By that logic every news website is spam, because those also contain ads.

          I agree the article is without much merit. But calling it spam because it also appears in a book and it mentions that source, is just diluting the term.