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Like most *bien-pensant* liberals, Schama seems to assume that divisions are a bad thing, which is surely untrue. Some forms of discord are certainly to be regretted, but others aren’t. Low-paid workers who strike against companies which could easily pay them more stir up trouble, and so they should. The alternative to such conflict is consensus, which means that working people meekly accept what they are given, which may mean in turn that they find it hard to eat and keep warm at the same time.
Britain Is Stronger Divided
Terry Eagleton
In [game theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory), which constructs mathematical models for individuals' behavior in strategic situations, the corresponding "game", developed by Hardin, is known as the Commonize Costs – Privatize Profits Game ([CC–PP game](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CC%E2%80%93PP_game)).[[84]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons#cite_note-84)
Tragedy of the Commons
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When one engages with AI models, the meaning of the process is systematically precluded. If, as Bernstein puts it, “freedom is the capacity to act anew, and art is that human practice in which human beings routinely produce new, unique items,” then generative models are the opposite, a foreclosure of the possibility to create new meanings, new unique items — things that can’t be virtually anticipated by an algorithmic process.
Epic Forgetting
Rob Horning
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