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A person who has a doppelganger, Freud wrote, “may identify himself with another and so become unsure of his true self.”3 He wasn’t right about everything, but he was right about that.
This is all a kind of vulgar Thatcherism. Margaret Thatcher's mantra was "There is no alternative." She repeated this so often they called her "TINA" Thatcher: There. Is. No. Alternative. TINA.
"There is no alternative" is a cheap rhetorical slight. It's a demand dressed up as an observation. "There is no alternative" means "STOP TRYING TO THINK OF AN ALTERNATIVE." Which, you know, *fuck that*.
The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI
pluralistic.net
It's wonderful to run a company that's got a growth stock. Your shares are as good as money. If you want to buy another company, or hire a key worker, you can offer stock instead of cash. And stock is very easy for companies to get, because shares are manufactured right there on the premises, all you have to do is type some zeroes into a spreadsheet, while *dollars* are much harder to come by. A company can only get dollars from customers or creditors.
The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI
pluralistic.net
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