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What I think I’ve come to understand, more deeply than ever before, is that the enemy is not technology itself, but rather inequality and centralization of power and knowledge, and that the answer to these threats are education, diversity and justice.
Ways of Being
James Bridle
Many businesses found good value implementing rather mundane solutions like recommendation engines and predictive analytics, and while these efforts were able to squeeze a few more drops of blood from the e-commerce stone, they didn’t reshape society. The real impact came by manipulating people directly.
Emily F. Gorcenski
Norman Packard
The group’s leader is not accountable to any authorities (as are, for example, military commanders and ministers, priests, monks, and rabbis of mainstream denominations).
Effective Altruism Is a Dangerous Cult — Here's Why
Émile P. Torres
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