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To be a consumer in the total economy, one must agree to be totally ignorant, totally passive, and totally dependent on distant supplies and self-interested suppliers.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
After Kristallnacht in 1938, for instance, a delegation from the Australian Aborigines League wrote a protest letter condemning “the cruel persecution of the Jewish people by the Nazi Government of Germany”20 and, in a little-known historical chapter, hand-delivered it to the German consulate in Melbourne (the consulate refused to accept it). This was well before Western governments were willing to confront Hitler; yet these Indigenous leaders, who were still fighting for basic rights of their own, clearly saw the gravity of the threat.
Poor data coverage, in particular, leads to weak safety guarantees on real-world chatbot behaviour, and potentially underrecognised forms of algorithmic
unfairness: models are most likely to operate within safety bounds when confronted with communication styles that are typical, discriminating against atypical communication patterns characteristic of some mental health conditions (e.g., "thought disorder" in psychosis and mania) [90,91](https://paperpile.com/c/Gkdt8S/KHUo+O35L) .
Technological Folie a Deux - Google Docs
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