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After that, the worst marksmen were considered the best soldiers; and the very worst of all always got First Prize.” “And how did you decide which was the very worst of all?” “Easily. The best possible shooting is, you know, to hit what is exactly in front of you: so of course the worst possible is to hit what is exactly behind you.”
Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll
LEWIS CARROLL
The “real images” vs. “fake images” framing invites us to forget the intrinsic “fakeness” of all images or, what amounts to the same thing, to believe that we used to have some privileged access to truth and reality before we went image crazy as a society but a special few of us could have it again.
The Egg of Experience
Rob Horning
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
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