Mon. 11/01 - "Behind The Joy Are The Algorithms"
Cool Stuff Daily
Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff
4.6 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:28.7 | welcome to the cotkey ride home for monday, November 1st, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird today. A meditation on streaming entertainment, algorithms, and David Foster Wallace's prescient writing on the illusion of choice. Plus, a possible functional cure for HIV has just been approved to enter human |
| 0:56.5 | trials, and the Wampanog woman who grew heirloom corn on its original land for the first time |
| 1:03.3 | in over three centuries. Here are some of the cool things from the news today. |
| 1:10.7 | Writer Stuart Jeffries has a new book out called Everything All the Time Everywhere, |
| 1:16.2 | How We Became Postmodern, and a new excerpt printed in Literary Hub today really got my wheels |
| 1:22.0 | turning. It's about Netflix, the illusion of choice, and how David Foster Wallace foresaw at all. |
| 1:29.5 | Jeffries explains how in Wallace's encyclopedic novel, Infinite Gest, Wallace imagines |
| 1:34.8 | broadcast TV being replaced by interlaced tell entertainment, a company from which, quote, |
| 1:40.8 | cartridges could be bought or rented on demand and played on home cinema systems. |
| 1:45.5 | The on-demand invited customers to suppose that they were controlling the supply and |
| 1:50.5 | curating their entertainment. Wallace imagined the interlace as an enormous gatekeeper, |
| 1:55.6 | deciding what you would watch while seeming to offer viewers' choice. He supposed the internet |
| 2:00.7 | would evolve similarly. |
| 2:02.4 | Because the information supply is in principle infinite, we demand some kind of digital gatekeeper |
| 2:07.5 | to protect us from being overwhelmed. Wallace told an interviewer, if you go back to Hobbs and why |
| 2:13.6 | we ended up begging, why do people in a state of nature end up begging for a ruler who has the |
| 2:18.4 | power of life and death over them? We absolutely have to give our power away. The internet is going to |
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