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After the forest expands, we will become deeply sceptical of one another's *realness*. Every time you find a new favourite blog or Twitter account or Tiktok personality online, you'll have to ask: Is this really a whole human with a rich and complex life like mine? Is there a *being* on the other end of this web interface I can form a relationship with?
The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
Maggie Appleton
Among the many costs of the total economy, the loss of the principle of vocation is probably the most symptomatic and, from a cultural standpoint, the most critical. It is by the replacement of vocation with economic determinism that the exterior workings of a total economy destroy human character and culture also from the inside.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
In deep learning’s forward–backward sweep of prediction–correction, it seems like the process of weaving back and forth has followed the history of programmable systems, from the first Jacquard weaving looms of the early nineteenth century, which were controlled by punched cards, to the deep learning systems of the twenty-first century.
Resisting AI
Dan McQuillan
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