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It’s important to refer to the actual technology because one of the themes of this text is that political impacts arise from resonances between concrete technical characteristics and the surrounding social and political conditions.
Resisting AI
Dan McQuillan
I used to think of Blake’s sentence as a justification of youthful excess. By now I know that it describes the peculiar condemnation of our species. When the road of excess has reached the palace of wisdom it is a healed wound, a long scar.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
The group’s leader is not accountable to any authorities (as are, for example, military commanders and ministers, priests, monks, and rabbis of mainstream denominations).
Effective Altruism Is a Dangerous Cult — Here's Why
Émile P. Torres
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