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By referring to these pressing concerns with new technology as ‘ethical issues’, the companies who address them are made to look and feel good about discussing them, while limiting that discussion to an internal, specialized debate about abstract values and the design of technology itself.
Ways of Being
James Bridle
Today, I'm announcing Alexandria, an open-source initiative to embed the internet.
To start, we're releasing the embeddings for every research paper on the Arxiv. That's over 4m items, 600m tokens, and 3.07 billion vector dimensions.
We're not stopping here. https://t.co/zHG5EYit36 https://t.co/b2288fbnJZ
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Solidarity is a product of imagination as well as of action, because a practice of care for one another in the present consists in resisting the desire to plan, produce and solve. Those are the imperatives of corporate and technological thinking, which bind us to oppositional world views and binary choices.
Ways of Being
James Bridle
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