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Farago insists that he doesn’t mean to “rant” about how culture was better in the past but instead wants to ask “why cultural production no longer progresses in time as it once did.” In other words, why are there no master narratives? What happened to a recognizable zeitgeist, and to a sense of progress, to teleology? These are basically the concerns raised in the 1980s by the “postmodern turn,” and Farago dutifully mentions Jameson and Virilio as heralds of postmodernism’s emergence (Lyotard didn’t make the cut for some reason).
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The concept of red teaming and blue teaming emerged in the early 1960s. One early example of red teaming involved the think tank [RAND Corporation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND_Corporation), which did simulations for the [United States military](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military) during the [Cold War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War). "Red team" and the color red were used to represent the [Soviet Union](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union)
This turns AI-"assisted" coders into *reverse* centaurs. The AI can churn out code at superhuman speed, and you, the human in the loop, must maintain perfect vigilance and attention as you review that code, spotting the cleverly disguised hooks for malicious code that the AI can't be prevented from inserting into its code. As qntm writes, "code review [is] difficult relative to writing new code":
Humans Are Not Perfectly Vigilant
Cory Doctorow
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