Category: General
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Bolshie centennial
In Europe, we knew that the Nazis never really went away. But we never used to put them on mainstream fucking television. We never used to stick them on cable news and ask them for their fucking opinions. When you can open the Overton Window and march a few thousand fascists through it, then it’s…
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The ecstasy of submission
It’s done. Still gotta defend it at the viva, but it’s done. So, who fancies giving me a job, eh?
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Systematized instrumental rationality
So AI and capitalism are merely two offshoots of something more basic, let՚s call it systematized instrumental rationality, and are now starting to reconverge. Maybe capitalism with AI is going to be far more powerful and dangerous than earlier forms – that՚s certainly a possibility. My only suggestion is that instead of viewing superempowered AIs…
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Consider the possibility
I’ve spent more time than I’d like to admit hanging around the online communities of the kind of people we are worried about reaching here, and I am here to tell you: They are using their critical thinking skills. They are fully literate in concepts like bias and in the importance of interrogating sources. They…
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UBIquitous
Glad to see the debate on UBI is starting to get beyond the surface gosh-wow. From a bit at Teh Graun: In their incendiary book Inventing the Future, the authors Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek argue for UBI but link it to three other demands: collectively controlled automation, a reduction in the working week, and…