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But the more devastating impacts of pedal-to-the-metal digital capitalism fall on the environment, the global poor, and the civilizational future their oppression portends.
Survival of the Richest
Douglas Rushkoff
For example, when a community loses its memory, its members no longer know one another. How can they know one another if they have forgotten or have never learned one another’s stories? If they do not know one another’s stories, how can they know whether or not to trust one another? People who do not trust one another do not help one another, and moreover they fear one another. And this is our predicament now. Because of a general distrust and suspicion, we not only lose one another’s help and companionship, but we are all now living in jeopardy of being sued.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
Again, this seems like it would be obvious — you can’t get anything out of a computational process that you haven’t already put in. Math equations are not imaginative. The *social process* is what adds new meanings. Generative AI could be part of a social process — it can be used to make things that are then used socially — but the relation of a user to a machine in and of itself doesn’t make anything new. And the concern is the degree to which this relation could serve as a substitution for social relations.
Epic Forgetting
Rob Horning
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