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The crisis can be solved only if we learn to invert the present deep structure of tools; if we give people tools that guarantee their right to work with high, independent efficiency, thus simultaneously eliminating the need for either slaves or masters and enhancing each person’s range of freedom. People need new tools to work with rather than tools that “work” for them. They need technology to make the most of the energy and imagination each has, rather than more well-programmed energy slaves.
Tools for Conviviality
Ivan Illich
Narayanan and Kapoor offer a vision of informed consumers and enlightened executives working together to field some institutional critiques and entertain *some* political debates. They cannot entertain more substantive fixes because they don’t seem to be aware of more substantive problems. *AI Snake Oil* has relatively little to say on what we should do about AI besides make it work in vaguely more sustainable and responsible ways.
AI Scams Are the Point
Edward Ongweso Jr.
If we want to appreciate the mystery of life, it is essential to evade the compulsion of our desires by understanding that there does not need to be anything else in our current situations. There is no greater feeling, state, or condition that we have to achieve. There is no lesser or more limited feeling, state, or condition that we have to be liberated from. This is it. And this poignancy is always here. We can give ourselves permission to experience it; to be right here with it. To be available to it. To be available to the mystery of life is to be free.
Radically Condensed Instructions for Being Just as You Are
J Jennifer Matthews
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