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The Humanities Have Sown the Seeds of Their Own Destruction - The Atlantic
Tyler Austin Harper
That means reckoning with what’s called ambiguous loss: any loss that’s unclear and lacks a resolution. It can be physical, such as a missing person or the loss of a limb or organ, or psychological, such as a family member with dementia or a serious addiction.
Your ‘Surge Capacity’ Is Depleted — It’s Why You Feel Awful
elemental.medium.com
If you think, however, that the problem of artificial intelligence—and technology under capitalism more generally—is that it has been beholden to the military-industrial complex from the start and serves to concentrate power, a few questions make a good start: How should we develop artificial intelligence, how should it be funded, how should computational resources be distributed, how should various technologies and the means of producing them be owned? Narayanan and Kapoor seem to believe that the main problem is hype. Whether they realize it or not, that’s a form of snake oil, too.
AI Scams Are the Point
Edward Ongweso Jr.
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