Below are posts associated with the “Jason Koebler” tag.
🔗 linkblog: Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human
Easy to dunk on Grokipedia, but this article gets at some ideas that I think are particularly important. If I had more time for blogging this semester, I’d write something up on Ellul’s image vs. word dichotomy and how it aligns with Koebler’s thoughts here.
🔗 linkblog: The Simulation Says the Orioles Should Be Good
Listened to Jason talk about this story on the 404 podcast while doing dishes last night (interspersed with watching clips of Moneyball, which I’ve never seem), and so I came back to skim the original article.
I don’t really care about baseball, so maybe I’m not allowed to have this opinion, but this all seems like a hellscape that Jacques Ellul’s technique explains pretty well.