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They say: *We can act like Nazis not because we are all secret Nazis in the official underground Nazi club, but rather, because we are free to play with History that YOU have deemed inappropriate in your era of total cultural dominance.* They are playing with norms, poking and prodding in much the same way that progressive attacks on modern progress emerged in art during the 1960s and 70s.
The Meaning of Musk's Nazi Salute - by Matthew Ellis
Matthew Ellis
But it may not be a side effect but a primary goal of these systems: to induce a weariness with the burden of one’s own agency once it’s shown to be ineffective, marginal, vestigial.
Two Riders Were Approaching
Rob Horning
One of the reasons people get excited about AI is because of the way it can be applied to so many different challenges. However, the characteristics of abstraction and optimization that make AI so appealing also make it brittle in ways that amount to statistical callousness. Its operations easily become forms of social profiling and targeting that act as ‘solutionism’, that is, as technical fixes that cover up underlying structural unfairness.
Resisting AI
Dan McQuillan
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