I agree with your premise, that in order to deal with the vast amount of information, we filter new ideas through different 'lenses' that associate them to the ideas we already have running. I also agree that it is a lot easier to look for a prebaked perspective instead of forming one yourself.
That said, I think there is another variable that should be considered here, uncertainty.. The first thought that occurred to reading the quantum chip example in your article was that the comments would have had a different tone 5-10 years ago.
There is an implicit assumption that technological progress is good, that it will be leveraged to better the lives of everyday people, I think more people are questioning and rejecting that assumption in response to the world they are experiencing. We are living in an AI boom costing billions of dollars and it enables me to... write an email a little quicker? skip a google to find a recipe? And that value is counterbalanced by apparent gross environmental costs.. This translates into more uncertainty when interpreting complex information.
All this to say that as uncertainty increases, I think our tendency to use the 'file compression' type behavior you described increases in lockstep.
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I agree with your premise, that in order to deal with the vast amount of information, we filter new ideas through different 'lenses' that associate them to the ideas we already have running. I also agree that it is a lot easier to look for a prebaked perspective instead of forming one yourself.
That said, I think there is another variable that should be considered here, uncertainty.. The first thought that occurred to reading the quantum chip example in your article was that the comments would have had a different tone 5-10 years ago.
There is an implicit assumption that technological progress is good, that it will be leveraged to better the lives of everyday people, I think more people are questioning and rejecting that assumption in response to the world they are experiencing. We are living in an AI boom costing billions of dollars and it enables me to... write an email a little quicker? skip a google to find a recipe? And that value is counterbalanced by apparent gross environmental costs.. This translates into more uncertainty when interpreting complex information.
All this to say that as uncertainty increases, I think our tendency to use the 'file compression' type behavior you described increases in lockstep.