Nothing could possibly capture the inherent inanity of the current debate of the role and harms of AI in society better than these sentences.
ve, the ghost of info past
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![Inmates form a "small world," a closed community where private opinion yields to a shared reality its accompanying information-seeking behavior. 2! Social norms established by inmates determine the importance or triviality of a piece of information; as such, information that affects prisoners in an immediate way (such as illness while medical staff are off-duty) gain importance, while information about the outside world becomes trivial. 61[5] Chatman concludes that life in the round disfavors information seeking behavior, as there is no need to search for outside information.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfreda_Chatman](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gulgraxdu6fcjpitxjniqn55/bafkreigmz5jicvuhpsofidm6qfzevgestawjigxeqj26mcpos7vznmt34u)
