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The American Mind

How to Write Wokely | The Roundtable Ep. 25 Segment 2

The American Mind

The Claremont Institute

Philosophy, News, Society & Culture

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Language matters. Textio, the new language-cleansing app, is just one among a number of robotic brain worms poised to emasculate and denature all language and, eventually all thought. Plus: Princeton faculty has made a series of misguided woke demands. Our editors stare into the void of depravity which faces us all.

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0:00.0

Fool said I you do not know.

0:05.0

Silence like a cancer rose.

0:08.0

Hear my words that I'm behind teach you.

0:15.0

Take the yolts that I'm a hindry chew.

0:20.0

But my words... Well, we thought for the second segment to bring up a long running theme here on the American

0:35.7

mind, which is the ascent of artificial intelligence and its contribution to our

0:40.4

wokeness.

0:42.4

We've talked about on this as early as last or as soon as last

0:47.5

last week about AI's the bots participation in our new dreamed for woke regime that the left has gined up for us.

0:59.0

That is to say, the experts in social justice will increasingly become artificial intelligence.

1:05.0

It's a truly a way to get real experts and get the parochial and self-interested people out of the business of enforcement of this new regime.

1:15.9

And so we present to you a new app called Textio, well it's really a sweet, software suite. So in the business of online writing, a big part of it is something called search engine optimization.

1:29.0

Now when you type something into Google, it predicts what you're trying to type, certain phrases,

1:35.9

lead you certain places, there's this whole elaborate algorithmic, etc. infrastructure that produces all of this and to get good traffic to your website

1:46.7

it helps to use phrases that tend to draw people to your argument absent whatever specific content of your argument you're trying to convey.

1:55.0

And there are all sorts of tools out there

1:57.8

of what phrase you should use,

2:01.9

if you want to drive people to a certain subject rather than another phrase, what are the more

2:06.2

popular words, etc, etc.

2:08.2

So this was inevitable that something like Text Deal would come along.

2:11.1

I'm sure it's not the first thing, it just happened to pop on our radar. And what Textio does is it it encourages you through a very nice fancy interface to use words and phrases that tend to attract or represent or pluck the

2:32.4

heartstrings of people of color, minorities, women, etc.

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