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At the scale these companies need to justify their valuations, you’re looking at social instability that makes the current populist moment look quaint. Tens of millions of people, in their productive years, with no economic function, no clear path to one, and a keen awareness that the people who did this to them are the richest human beings who have ever lived.
The Dead Economy Theory
Owen McGrann
The regulator and the regulated have converged into a single interest.
The Dead Economy Theory
Owen McGrann
Again, this seems like it would be obvious — you can’t get anything out of a computational process that you haven’t already put in. Math equations are not imaginative. The *social process* is what adds new meanings. Generative AI could be part of a social process — it can be used to make things that are then used socially — but the relation of a user to a machine in and of itself doesn’t make anything new. And the concern is the degree to which this relation could serve as a substitution for social relations.
Epic Forgetting
Rob Horning
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