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In a process that repeats itself with iron predictability everywhere that they are installed, targets quickly cease to be a way of measuring performance and become ends in themselves.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
Brockman, who would later connect Epstein to dozens of world-famous scientists, most of them his clients, made it seem as if it were people like him who built this “third culture” – out of their perceptive genius. The cardinal error of such analysis, however, lies in its tendency to mistake structural transformations of global capitalism for zeitgeisty trends in the history of ideas.
The Epstein scandal at MIT shows the moral bankruptcy of techno-elites
Evgeny Morozov
The development of AI can be conceived similarly, as a response to emerging modes of collaboration, cooperation, and organization spurred by more elaborate means of communication. It is an aspect of what James Beninger describes as *The Control Revolution*.
Fake Totalities
Rob Horning
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