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Cognitive Kessler Syndrome

2026-09-25 17:46:45.44375+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social

Holy chao, that's perfect. "Cognitive Kessler Syndrome."

Quote skeeting James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social

Have we called it the cognitive kessler effect yet? Should we? It's not a coincidence that it's the same people filling the sky and our headspaces with junk.

Edit addendum, as I clear out my backlog of bookmarks, from a thread looking at "AI" content as cognitive asbestos: Bruno Dias @brunodias.devM

It's like a suicide shot of cognitive biases. Once you assume that it's smart, confirmation bias comes into play; LLMs give you a *ton* of input for your brain to do confirmation bias on, a sort of semantic overload. It's actually not that different from software fuzz testing...

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