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Only art history would give you the vocabulary, the context and connections, a sense of what he calls the “possibility space.” Plus, “if society is extremely wealthy, there will be a status battle, and there will be jobs to do that are status-related,” he said. AI is “an order of magnitude” better at chess than Magnus Carlsen, he points out, but no one shows up to watch AI chess engines play each other, and more people are playing chess than ever before.
A Techno Optimist’s Guide to Raising Kids for the Age of AI
Benjamin Wallace
Almost everyone I talk to tells me about people they have lost “down the rabbit hole”—parents, siblings, best friends, as well as formerly trusted intellectuals and commentators. People, once familiar, who have become unrecognizable. Altered. It began to feel as if the forces that have destabilized my world are part of an expansive web of forces that are destabilizing our larger world—and that understanding these forces could hold a key to getting to firmer ground.
Within the currents of Israel’s anaesthetic violence everything is made sense of at ever higher fidelities, but only as a means of better policing and purging an increasingly colonized wasteland that expands across the surface of the world.
Anaesthetic Violence
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