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No matter whether we want AIs to fill the role of employees, lovers, or pets, I suspect they will do a better job if, during their development, there were people who cared about them.

Exhalation

Ted Chiang

The deep learning pioneers, the ones who stuck with it in the wilderness years, believe that better neural network architectures will eventually lead to a re-creation of all aspects of human intelligence, including symbolic manipulation, causal inference and common sense (Dickson, 2021).

Resisting AI

Dan McQuillan

In this sense, Rancière sees anarchic politics as only a means of reforming and redistributing the order of the police, ultimately concluding that it is a rare occurrence which never persists beyond the policing that survives and subdues it. If we accept this tamed and restrained understanding of anarchy, we must also accept that the aesthetic and anaesthetic administration of the world is an essential part of it. Is this what life will always consist of, the choice between being policed and being eradicated?

Anaesthetic Violence

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