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It's scale that attracts the impatient flows of venture capital, and scale that underpins claims about emergent superintelligence. In the eyes of AI's advocates there are no social, environmental or planetary limits. Indeed, they argue for going further and faster because only AI can save us from the climate crisis and cure all human disease.
Decomputing as Resistance
Dan McQuillan
And so instead of asking how to summon the energy or motivation or self-discipline to do something that matters to you, it's often more helpful to ask: What if this might be a lot easier than I'd been assuming?
Meditations for Mortals
Oliver Burkeman
First, they may need to recognize that velocity without understanding is not sustainable.
How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern From Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt
Margaret-Anne Storey
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