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Big companies are where good ideas go to die. If a big company passes on its employees' cool, disruptive ideas, that's the end of the story for that idea. But even if 100 VCs pass on a startup's cool idea and only one VC funds it, the startup still gets to pursue that idea. In startup land, a good idea gets lots of chances – in a big company, it only gets one.
Pluralistic: Big Tech Disrupted Disruption
Cory Doctorow
If structuralism assumes everything is structured like a language, that would suit the tech company ideology of developing LLMs and presenting them as the path to “artificial general intelligence.” What Jameson discusses as “linguistic structures” we might think of now as datafication or digitization, processes predicated on the idea that there is a systematic order to “all the layers of social life” that can be captured quantitatively, and that all experience is essentially fungible, exchangeable, commensurate.
Neo-Structuralism
Rob Horning
A move to AI systems will reproduce this kind of racial discrimination at an industrial scale, as AI not only ingests [the racism embedded in its training data](https://www.computerweekly.com/blog/Cliff-Sarans-Enterprise-blog/How-racist-bias-is-embedded-in-software-systems) but projects it through reductive classifications and exclusions.
AI Will Create a Thousand Post Office Scandals
Dan McQuillan
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