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But these are the awkward postures one must assume not only to posit LLMs as a potentially lucrative product (as has been widely pointed out) but also to sustain fantasies about there being a perspective that certain special people have a right to claim as neutral and objective, despite the intrinsic and inevitable biases of any situated knowledge.
Practico-Inertia
Rob Horning
You walk into a room and flip a switch and the room fills with light. You leave your garbage in bags on the curb, and a truck comes and transports it to some invisible place. When you’re in danger, you call for the police. Hot water pours from faucets. Lift a receiver or press a button on a telephone, and you can speak to anyone. All of the information in the world is on the Internet, and the Internet is all around you, drifting through the air like pollen on a summer breeze.
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
As debt appeared, money flourished. But for money to have value, an institution, the state, had to make it trustworthy. When we talk about the economy, this is what we are talking about: the complex relations that emerge in a society with a surplus.
Talking to My Daughter
Yanis Varoufakis
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