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Understanding AI means understanding its specific computational operations and everything that is being carried along by them; the history that AI has absorbed, the world in which it is emerging, and the futures that it calls forth. Some of what may seem, at the start, like nerdish technical detail will turn out to have significant political implications.
Resisting AI
Dan McQuillan
Imagination, she figured, just wasn’t up to the task of understanding unique and foreign sensations. It only knew how to dampen or augment what it already knew.
For Derrida, an event truly worthy of the name must be absolutely and completely irruptive, unforeseeable, and incalculable, bordering on incomprehension and surpassing and challenging its own representation, extent, and context.
Hence, an event truly worthy of the name, Derrida says, already lies beyond the domain of the possible, the domain of the possible possibilities. The event is grounded in the impossible itself.
Derrida on the Event: Singular/Iterable
https://that-which.com/author/hai-ak/
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