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attention economy

Entries tagged with attention economy - exploring this theme across cognitive biases, logical fallacies, mental models, and more.

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AI Slop

AI slop is low-quality content mass-produced by generative AI - made for clicks, not for you. How to spot it, and why it is everywhere.

Digital amnesia is forgetting what we let our devices remember for us. The 'Google effect', why it happens, and what it costs.

Doomscrolling is compulsively scrolling through bad news that leaves you worse off but unable to stop. Why we do it, and how feeds exploit it.

Enshittification is how online platforms decay - good to you at first, then squeezed for profit until barely usable. The pattern, and why it happens.

Parasocial bonds are the one-sided closeness we feel towards people who do not know we exist - and how platforms and AI now turn it into a product.