苏诺的笔记(452)

To unlearn

The thing about disgust is that it makes prejudice physical. And just because something is physical doesn't mean that it's *natural*. In fact, our bodies are trained to respond to certain things ov...
Insecurity

People judge gender non-conformity because they are insecure about their identities. If they weren't, then gender variance wouldn't be so heavily policed. Gender non-conformity causes such a huge r...

So imagine we must

"Capitalism has always been an implausible system, characterised by tensions and antagonisms, ever poised to bring it to the brink of collapse. Today the system's possibility is not only politicall...
Partial automation renders many human jobs piecemeal

In this spirit, AI does not tend to create fully automated systems but rather systems that partially automate jobs and outsource certain tasks to the crowd. As sites like Mechanical Turk suggest, t...
这块可以和tech infrastructure dev的文章联系一下

Tech infrastructure development是如何导致下面说的这个情况发生的？比如像FB的那个internet.org的项目，把internet带给发展中国家的人的后果，是不是也是下面这个？ But what was once peripheral now comes to...
Data也是由人而来

Though data is the lifeblood of platforms, its production is not something we tend to think of. We can see an iphones hardware and can glean from its materiality the labour necessary for its manufa...

居安思危

That a market is doing well tells us nothing about its future prospects. Indeed, the moment when the growth of a market seems inevitable is precisely when we should be most fearful about what is dr...
对measurable engagement metrics的执着，老生常谈

而之所以出现measurable metrics，是因为有人需要measure value。And a lot of the time, this "value" equals "monetary value." 当然这不会是社交网络设计成某种式样的唯一原因。不过这肯定是主要原因之一。 So...
Opaque markets

这段写得很好。想起了恒大的事儿。 Opacity isn't dangerous only because it can cause errors in valuation. It also allows the active inflation of a market despite the fundamental shakiness of the thin...

Trolling is never a form of communication

这段还是写得挺好的。 The problem is not that promises of communication are overly idealistic. It’s that the thinking about communication gets to hide behind its own idealism — gets to hide how we...
Critique of Ayn Rand

Rand’s heroic individualism has become an inescapable part of how the tech industry presents itself. Through her genius aesthetic, the very unaesthetic practice of coding (if you don’t believe me...
How McLuhan's idea may shape the tech industry in Silicon Valley

It’s likely that this de-emphasis on content set the tone for the tech industry going forward. The idea that content is in a strange way secondary, even though the platforms Silicon Valley keeps i...
关于这个的一点不同看法：Design for everybody means designing for people like them?

It has certainly shaped the tech industry's somewhat tortured relationship to universality. The tech giants want to make things happen for "everybody." But often "everybody" means "people like me."... (2回应)

Laziness as a sign of warning

Apathy, low motivation, an inability to focus, a desire to “waste time” doing “nothing” — these are all valuable warning signs. They can teach us a great deal about our limits and needs. When ...