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Disciplinary society is still governed by no. Its negativity produces madmen and criminals. In contrast, achievement society creates depressives and losers.
The Burnout Society
Han, Byung-Chul;
Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor open their new book, *[AI Snake Oil](https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691249131/ai-snake-oil?srsltid=AfmBOorHbypOHktYByYHjTaai6yIWbcS77l9JiliigOPk5Ry79A03WV7)*, with a thought experiment: Imagine a world where “vehicle” was the only word we used to refer to every mode of transportation. Debates about environmental impact, safety, cost, and so on would be confusing because we would be conflating bikes with spacecraft or trucks with buses.
AI Scams Are the Point
Edward Ongweso Jr.
Pascal would also tell us that the stakes are high, quite high. “The only thing which consoles us for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries,” he writes. “For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves, and which makes us insensibly ruin ourselves. Without this we should be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death.”
Desire, Dopamine, and the Internet
The Convivial Society
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