Cult of the aggregate Pretty sure it is a tech thing Desire to crunch data But data is unstructured, incoherent and imperfect It is noise Imagine sitting in a crowded theatres in the intermission, recording all the Hubbub and extracting a singles canonical meaning from it Extracting signal from noise is the same But if we don't do it the hubbub is just noise We say “we have cognitive biases and they inform our reactions” well no shit To extract signal from noise is to filter, limit compress and selectively amplify on the predication that there is a signal. It is to deliberately bias Bias is what creates meaning.
There is local meaning - maybe - based on local interactions and echo chambers but these are informal, incomplete, and impossible to delimit
So central figures extrapolated from random noise: growth. The intention behind expressed electoral preference. Average wages. Why the stock market went up. *That* the stock market went to day - these are spectral figures. They are ghosts, gods, monsters and devils. They are no more real than religions, just because they are the product of “science" and "techne"
We have some convenient proxies: in an election, a manifesto. Did every voter read the party's manifesto? No? Did everyone who did subscribe to every line in it? Almost certainly no. Did *anyone* subscribe to every line. By no means certain. So can we legimately under uniform support for manifesto? Only by dint of the convention that those who vote support a manifesto. But even that convention is a spectre.
But yet we draw battle lines and attack basis our own invented signals. Trans activists right for the rights of fragile vulnerable androgynous teen-age elfen dolphins as if all trans-identifying people are like that. Gender critical activists fight against middle-aged male sex-offenders operating under cover, if all trans people are like that.
Yet such a patently ludicrous argument animates the public square. This is no more real than vampires fighting werewolves. Why do we take it anymore seriously.
Hence the delamination: the online world is a world of extruded ghoulish signals aggregated from the unfiltered noise of discourse. The offline world — can we call it the offworld? — is a world of bilateral conversations, one on one. A world of shades, nuance, detail, richness, complexity's and — for the most part — civility.
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