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Machine learning’s optimizations are a kind of abstract utilitarianism, a mode of calculative ordering that results in particular ways of structuring systems. The logic of optimization, which has deep Cold War roots, already underpins our systems of logistics and planning, and the combination of granular data and machine learning opens up the opportunity for it to be used for social problems.
Resisting AI
Dan McQuillan
Perhaps their method of government was the strangest of all. In this planet, I am told, a Nation consists of a number of Subjects, and one King: but, in the little planet I speak of, it consisted of a number of Kings, and one Subject!”
Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll
LEWIS CARROLL
In the work of Shelley Tremain, what is put at stake is often philosophy as a practice that is meant to give an account of who exists, how they exist, and how they are to be managed.
On Human Capital and the Eugenic Commitment
RevoltingBodies
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