Why Data Abundance Produces Decision Failure. In an age of data overload, institutions don’t fail from ignorance, but from models they can no longer afford to change.
This is a brilliant summary: Rupture is not caused by ignorance; it is caused by institutions that make learning too expensive.
Another pathway is the institution no longer has the mechanisms to learn or self-correct, as these have atrophied into "going through the motions" simulations rather than actual learning. This is the pathway of Model Collapse: simulations become hallucinations.
I have not left a comment before, however I am struck by your insight. The leaders have too much to lose by acknowledging the problems so just kick it forward
The prescience of your thoughts is not lost on me...after all everything gets discarded eventually. But when I am the progenitor of such future discards (such as the Stanley Tucci example), it engenders a cognitive dissonance whose only repair may actually be "spiritual". One can hide in the woods if all systems break, perhaps, but where is one to go internally when there are no longer support systems in place? I mean, even all the American expats heading to Portugal as a potential salve to their current existentialism..will the cure be long term? Todays institutions, as they dissolve, will force us maybe to reckon with things the majority of men had to deal with prior to the creation of all these support structures in the first place. And the meek shall inherit the earth; whatever that might mean to the reader !
This essay began by discussing how the exponential proliferation of data is rendering models obsolete. Fair enough. I think we can all feel this happening right now.
The underlying theme of the essay is that this information overload is likely to lead to a rupture, described as a disorienting update to delinquent models. That point is anchored with references like the New Deal and to Republican Rome.
I would have liked to hear more about these "ruptures". Here, they're described only as resolutions of contradiction. Presumably, the information overload described at the beginning of the essay don't apply to these historical circumstances.
This is a brilliant summary: Rupture is not caused by ignorance; it is caused by institutions that make learning too expensive.
Another pathway is the institution no longer has the mechanisms to learn or self-correct, as these have atrophied into "going through the motions" simulations rather than actual learning. This is the pathway of Model Collapse: simulations become hallucinations.
All cognition is simulation. Hierarchy generates increasingly abstracted forms of cognition.
I have not left a comment before, however I am struck by your insight. The leaders have too much to lose by acknowledging the problems so just kick it forward
i don't think I have read something so intelligent in a long while, bravo Simon.
The prescience of your thoughts is not lost on me...after all everything gets discarded eventually. But when I am the progenitor of such future discards (such as the Stanley Tucci example), it engenders a cognitive dissonance whose only repair may actually be "spiritual". One can hide in the woods if all systems break, perhaps, but where is one to go internally when there are no longer support systems in place? I mean, even all the American expats heading to Portugal as a potential salve to their current existentialism..will the cure be long term? Todays institutions, as they dissolve, will force us maybe to reckon with things the majority of men had to deal with prior to the creation of all these support structures in the first place. And the meek shall inherit the earth; whatever that might mean to the reader !
Nice job, Simon!
This essay began by discussing how the exponential proliferation of data is rendering models obsolete. Fair enough. I think we can all feel this happening right now.
The underlying theme of the essay is that this information overload is likely to lead to a rupture, described as a disorienting update to delinquent models. That point is anchored with references like the New Deal and to Republican Rome.
I would have liked to hear more about these "ruptures". Here, they're described only as resolutions of contradiction. Presumably, the information overload described at the beginning of the essay don't apply to these historical circumstances.