toma on signal ness
toma bedolla on signal ness via march 2026 substack [https://tomabedolla.substack.com/p/finding-signal-in-the-amplified-ai]
notes/quotes:
Finding Signal in the Amplified AI Noise
How Do You Actually Reach Someone in the Age of AI?
I could hear the words coming out of her mouth, but actually hear what she had to say?
I didn’t hear what she meant.
We’ve spent the past two decades since building more tools to better connect, communicate, and educate. Yet, maybe even less so today than ever before, we’re still not hearing each other.
huge.. need 1st/most: means (nonjudgmental expo labeling) to undo hierarchical listening – so we can hear what’s already on each heart as global detox in order to org around legit needs
ie: tech as it could be et al
Social media didn’t create echo chambers. It found our latent tendency toward them and handed it a megaphone. We sorted ourselves — algorithmically at first, then willingly. We optimized for comfort over signal. *We built feeds that confirmed what we already believed and called it staying informed. We traded the discomfort of being wrong for the warm bath of being agreed with
*gray research law.. black science of people/whales law.. et al
**maté trump law.. et al.. brown belonging law
We’d already built the conditions. AI just perfected the sorting.
to me.. this is huge to 1\ being in sea world since forever so needing hari rat park law et al.. 2\ the thing we need tech for that we can’t seem to do – nonjudgmental expo labeling.. a sorting of us that is w/o judgment..
AI didn’t break connection. It revealed that we’d already broken it.
The credibility problem predates AI by a decade… I built a platform called HowTru to solve it… She wasn’t asking about misinformation. She was asking if anyone would hear her.. That’s the same question everyone is asking right now.
to me.. this is huge to getting at the root of problem.. not about info/intell.. et al.. about listening..
again.. tech as it could be
How each of us learns to find signal in this noise shapes our own tomorrow. Aggregated across all of us — it shapes ours. Humanity’s. This isn’t abstract philosophy. It’s the most practical question of the next decade.
mufleh humanity law: we have seen advances in every aspect of our lives except our humanity– Luma Mufleh.. et al
to me.. nothing to date has gotten to the root of problem
here’s what the doom narrative misses.. AI isn’t just noise. It can also help us find signal — if we’re intentional about how we use it.
huge.. huge.. there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental exponential labeling) to facil the seeming chaos of a global detox leap/dance.. for (blank)’s sake..
I’ve spent 15 years building those conditions in a different context. House of Genius — 1,261 events across 36 cities — is built on one foundational premise: remove the credentials from the room and you remove the noise the credential brings. What’s left is the idea itself. The signal without the static.
and to me.. even deeper.. need global detox first.. because ie: wilde not-us law et al.. not-us flapping whalespeak.. infinitum
ie: self-talk as data for detox.. via idiosyncratic jargon et al.. otherwise language as control/enclosure
to me.. ‘w/o static’ ness.. has/begs to be sans any form of measuring, accounting, people telling other people what to do
That’s what I think about when I wonder how we actually reach each other in the age of AI.. Not better algorithms. Better conditions.
spot on.. again.. hari rat park law
how we gather in a space is huge.. need to try spaces of permission where people have nothing to prove to facil curiosity over decision making.. because the finite set of choices of decision making is unmooring us.. keeping us from us..
ie: imagine if we listen to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & use that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness)
the thing we’ve not yet tried/seen: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness
[‘in an undisturbed ecosystem ..the individual left to its own devices.. serves the whole’ –dana meadows]
there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental exponential labeling) to facil the seeming chaos of a global detox leap/dance.. for (blank)’s sake..
ie: whatever for a year.. a legit sabbatical ish transition
otherwise we’ll keep perpetuating the same song.. the whac-a-mole-ing ness of sea world.. of not-us ness.. of part\ial ness.. perpetuating survival triage.. for (blank)’s sake..
The woman at the microphone in 2011 wasn’t looking for a platform with better fact-checking. She was looking for a room where someone would actually hear her fear. I didn’t give her that. The tools I’d built couldn’t give her that.
I’ve been thinking about what that room looks like ever since.
what we were quiet enough to see.. on the ground ness et al
perhaps career suicide attempt #3 – via whatever for a year.. a legit sabbatical ish transition
to give big/deepest problem ever a go.. aka: the root of problem
we need a problem deep enough to resonate w/8b today.. via a mechanism simple enough to be accessible/usable to 8b today.. in an ecosystem open enough to set/keep 8b legit free
ie: org around a problem deep enough (aka: org around legit needs) to resonate w/8b today.. via a mechanism simple enough (aka: tech as it could be) to be accessible/usable to 8b today.. and an ecosystem open enough (aka: sans any form of m\a\p) to set/keep 8b legit free
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wondering if you’re up for a 3rd career suicide attempt.. (tibeten mtns.. golf.. dgi ness and/or a sabbatical ish transition)
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be you. 