Tag
technology
Entries tagged with technology - exploring this theme across cognitive biases, logical fallacies, mental models, and more.
17 concepts
Automation Bias
Automation bias is trusting a machine's judgement over our own - following its advice, or missing what it fails to flag, even when we could see better.
Psychological PhenomenonBetrayal Aversion
We'd rather face a worse outcome from chance than a better one that carries any risk of being betrayed by another person.
Psychological PhenomenonCognitive Load
When the demands on your working memory exceed its capacity, your ability to think clearly, make good decisions, and resist manipulation drops sharply.
Manipulation TacticDark Patterns
Deliberately deceptive design choices that trick people into doing things they didn't intend to do.
Technology & SocietyDead Internet Theory
Dead internet theory claims bots and AI now generate most of the internet, with humans at the margins. What is true in it, and what overreaches.
Technology & SocietyDeepfakes
A deepfake is AI-generated video, audio or imagery showing real people doing things they never did, and why it breaks our trust in recordings.
Technology & SocietyDigital Amnesia
Digital amnesia is forgetting what we let our devices remember for us. The 'Google effect', why it happens, and what it costs.
Technology & SocietyDoomscrolling
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.
Technology & SocietyEnshittification
Enshittification is how online platforms decay - good to you at first, then squeezed for profit until barely usable. The pattern, and why it happens.
Technology & SocietyLiar's Dividend
The liar's dividend is the advantage liars gain once fakes are known to exist: they can wave away genuine, damaging recordings as just a deepfake.
Systems ThinkingNetwork Effects
When a product, platform, or system becomes more valuable to each user as more people use it - creating powerful winner-take-all dynamics.
Technology & SocietyParasocial Bonds
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.
Systems ThinkingPath Dependence
Where you end up depends on where you started - and the route you took matters more than the destination you intended.
Technology & SocietyPlanned Obsolescence
Planned obsolescence is designing products to wear out or feel outdated, so you keep buying replacements. How it works, and why it shapes what you own.
Cognitive BiasStatus Quo Bias
The preference for the current state of affairs, where any change is perceived as a loss.
Technology & SocietyThe ELIZA Effect
The ELIZA effect is our habit of reading real understanding, empathy or intelligence into a machine, simply because it answers us in fluent language.
Systems ThinkingTipping Points
The critical threshold at which a small change triggers a rapid, often irreversible shift in the behaviour of a system.