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As a society we need to treat AI resources as finite and precious, to be utilised only when necessary, and as effectively as possible. We need *frugal AI*.
Reducing the climate cost of AI
Wim Vanderbauwhede
Nietzsche was diagnosing the crisis of meaning after the collapse of metaphysical certainty, not writing a management philosophy for people who got rich selling advertising technology. The Übermensch is about the individual’s relationship to the creation of meaning in a godless universe. It has nothing to do with whether Peter Thiel should be exempt from democratic accountability. Nietzsche would have classified these people as the *last men*, the ones who blink, say “we have invented happiness,” and mistake comfort and optimization for human flourishing. He would have *fucking loathed* them.
The Dead Economy Theory
Owen McGrann
The problem with generative AI, from this perspective, is that it can be understood as inviting self-reflection: It asks you what you want, so it forces you into inauthenticity, makes you calculating and unspontaneous. It intensifies the pressure to want the right things, to present oneself better, to produce more competitive media with the model’s assistance. By putting more tools in people’s hands to deliberately make strategic images, AI models sharpen Polaroid’s opportunity to sell its commodified version of “reality” as spontaneous and unreflective.
The Egg of Experience
Rob Horning
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