Jan 10Liked by Alejandro Piad Morffis, Spear of Lugh
Great stuff. I always go back to the idea that everyone (myself included) sort of assumed that when information became free, a vastly better way to discern the truth would go hand in hand with this distribution.
Imagine my chagrin when my hopes for Nerd Paradise were replaced with a steady slide into Idiocracy.
"In the digital era writing, publishing, modifying, updating and spreading information has a marginal cost of 0"
No, not at all, the cost is extremly high, pupil lose the precious ability to write with the hand. Sensomotoric coordination, concentration and manual skills deminish or are not developed. At the time they are students it is mostly to late. Because of the close linke of hands and intellect on the neurological level the intellect suffers to. I admit this is not a very popular view, but just ask a bunch of teachers.
I am not sure that moving from hand writing to typing with a keyboard is such a loss.
But I was not talking about that. My point was about the cost to spread ideas. You can now spread an idea using a TikTok video: so you don't even have to write things and to limit yourself to people who know how to read. If it is a danse they don't even have to speak your idiom. It is new and has downsides that are the opposite of the downsides of having a large cost to spread ideas (the upside being that information is vetted and you can trust texts).
Congratulations, excellent analysis! Let the distributed society come.
Great stuff. I always go back to the idea that everyone (myself included) sort of assumed that when information became free, a vastly better way to discern the truth would go hand in hand with this distribution.
Imagine my chagrin when my hopes for Nerd Paradise were replaced with a steady slide into Idiocracy.
"In the digital era writing, publishing, modifying, updating and spreading information has a marginal cost of 0"
No, not at all, the cost is extremly high, pupil lose the precious ability to write with the hand. Sensomotoric coordination, concentration and manual skills deminish or are not developed. At the time they are students it is mostly to late. Because of the close linke of hands and intellect on the neurological level the intellect suffers to. I admit this is not a very popular view, but just ask a bunch of teachers.
I am not sure that moving from hand writing to typing with a keyboard is such a loss.
But I was not talking about that. My point was about the cost to spread ideas. You can now spread an idea using a TikTok video: so you don't even have to write things and to limit yourself to people who know how to read. If it is a danse they don't even have to speak your idiom. It is new and has downsides that are the opposite of the downsides of having a large cost to spread ideas (the upside being that information is vetted and you can trust texts).
Oh no, but I agree. I think "cost" here refers to "effort" and that's precisely the danger.