Feedback Loops

Newsletter bit

https://brianlui.dog/2020/05/10/beware-of-tight-feedback-loops/

• noise in social media
  • used to be a town square → hear what you hear
  • radio bar model → everyone has a frequency people chose their frequency (substack model)
  • competing on substack vs rolling your own
• centaur systems
  • human feedback loops
  • extended cognition with centaur systems

Imitation

https://www.briantimar.com/notes/mimetic/mimetic/ The second was a positive feedback loop that encouraged me to spend ever-increasing amounts of time on my work. Humans inherit convictions mimetically from each other — we learn what to value by imitating our peers. Maybe this is why we tend to want to conform to ingroup expectations in communities so much?

Dangers of groupthink as these feedback loops loop into themselves and repeat: collaborative-thinking

Among experimentalists, it’s not hard to find graduate students who can tell you every detail about how a particular machine operates, and almost nothing about why it should be built.