Fiction can reveal the affective seductions underpinning voluntary data extraction.

Evidence

Illuminates AI/Communication: Egan’s sequel-by-affinity to Goon Squad imagines a “Mandala” technology that lets users externalize and share their consciousness. Placed beside Zuboff’s Age of Surveillance Capitalism, the novel illuminates the affective seductions of voluntary data extraction. A surprisingly intimate primer for surveillance studies. — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 1111 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

And it has changed ‘our’ nature: for literature like Gilgamesh allows us not just to explore our own thoughts but to inhabit the thought worlds of others. — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 287 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Fiction anticipated training-data ethics through engineered intelligence bound to engineered intent — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 1056; Voluntary data extraction is seductive before it is coercive. — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 1111; Literature allows us to explore our thoughts and those of others. — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 287

Broader Connections