It's like the internet has made "attention whoring" the centre of our economy.
You might as well say "I behaved irresponsibly and as I write this I am still irresponsible. What to do, O what to do??"
How about take responsibility for yourself?
Digital algorithms now play a role in those belief systems, and the broadcasting of lifes in those digital platforms is a key part of it.
The question "how to take responsibility for yourself?" and similar rejection attitudes nowadays act more like a public encouragement to self-shun. It is, in itself, an act of broadcasting with the explicit goal of interacting with such belief systems.
The most obscene thing you can do in such an arrangement of beliefs is to expose one of the belief systems. It is kind of an attention grabbing mechanism, but very different from Kardashian-style media presence. It's way, way more obscene.
Kim Kardashians empire is now worth 5 billion $$$. These new life forms the attention ecosystem produces hardly resembles anything seen in the past. Everyday people start adopting celebrity techniques. Visibility is like oxygen to them, while the pre-attention ecosystem life treat it as exposure. We are seeing two diverging sub species.
I think AI is going to be very similar. And maybe it even develops a less virulent benign strain (like astronomy), but the bad one will hang around forever.
Stars and planets radiate energy. Some of that energy is visible light, most is not. Energy affects people physically and psychologically. The bodies in our solar system follow predictable cycles. To think that we are not affected by energy that hits the planet at regular intervals is silly. Does it control all of human behavior and events? Obviously not, but it's not doing nothing.
bell-cot•2h ago