{"id":13981,"date":"2025-08-15T14:11:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T21:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13981"},"modified":"2025-08-24T14:17:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T21:17:25","slug":"frictionless-solipsistic-efficiency-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/08\/15\/frictionless-solipsistic-efficiency-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"“Frictionless Solipsistic Efficiency”. Cool."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from Forbes<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

AI Demand-Shaping And The Frictionless Rub Of Solipsistic Efficiency<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

By Emil Steiner<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 1897, painter Frederic Remington wired\u00a0New York Journal<\/em>\u00a0publisher William Randolph Hearst from Cuba with bad news. There was nothing to see, no war to illustrate. Hearst\u2019s infamous reply: \u201cYou furnish the pictures, and I\u2019ll furnish the war.\u201d The apocryphal anecdote endures as a cautionary tale of media\u2019s power to shape reality to its owners\u2019 interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Broadly speaking, historians agree that the sensationalist reporting of Spanish atrocities in Cuba and the mysterious sinking of the USS Maine, which typified the Yellow Journalism era, contributed to the U.S. decision to enter the Spanish-American War in 1898. Hearst and other publishers, like Joseph Pulitzer, saw circulation spikes from their vivid, lurid, and constant coverage, facilitated by new technologies that brought battlefield color to readers at telegraphic speed. Narrative precedes truth. Sensation succeeds substance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from Forbes AI Demand-Shaping And The Frictionless Rub Of Solipsistic Efficiency By Emil Steiner In 1897, painter Frederic Remington wired\u00a0New York Journal\u00a0publisher William Randolph Hearst from Cuba with bad news. There was nothing to see, no war to illustrate. Hearst\u2019s infamous reply: \u201cYou furnish the pictures, and I\u2019ll furnish the war.\u201d The apocryphal anecdote endures […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}