Swarn Akshar

I want to think for myself

I want to think for myself, and I think you should too.

I came across an interesting term called "Algorithmic Complacency." As you can guess by the name, it's about how most of the internet nowadays revolves around doing your thinking for you rather than letting you decide for yourself.

There is no doubt that algorithms are controlling us—constraining our ability to search and think before forming a decision. Instead, they are making people indulge in attention mechanisms carefully designed not just to keep them hooked but also to think what the algorithm wants them to. And this poses a great challenge to the superpower that makes us human. I am talking about conscience, sirs.

I don't want to learn and see things unless I have curated a blueprint of what I need to learn and the kind of stuff I want to see. Reading books is a good example of how you actively choose for yourself what to learn and read.

Apart from attention, algorithms are affecting human connections in ways we have never seen before. You can guess what this is without me writing another rant on it. Put human connections over technological connections because these apps don't nurture them but actually exploit them instead.

I think this makes a good case for my next blog about LLMs affecting our thinking, and I promise that will be backed by more facts and fewer rants :D