Dark forests and the new internet

🫧 Open on Bubbles Last week we spoke remotely at the Sonar Festival in Barcelona. This is the text and slides of our talk. My name is Yancey Strickler. Thank you for having me. Today I'm going to talk about how we and society are changing. In ways that are uncomfortable and ways that are very different from the present. I don't endorse all of these ideas, nor do I think they lead to simplistic or purely positive outcomes. I'm here speaking as a witness, sharing the parts of the picture that I see. There's a