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Hardin was primarily interested in the problem of [human population growth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_overpopulation). But in his essay, he also focused on the use of larger (though finite) resources such as the Earth's atmosphere and oceans, as well as pointing out the "negative commons" of pollution (i.e., instead of dealing with the deliberate privatization of a positive resource, a "negative commons" deals with the deliberate commonization of a negative cost, pollution).
Tragedy of the Commons
wikipedia.org
It follows, then, that encouraging people to use generative models for feats of pseudo-creation can be a way of preventing them from experiencing freedom, from experiencing the specific kind of pleasure that Kant links to aesthetic judgment — the mind’s awareness of its own conceptualizing activity and how this capability authorizes a shared understanding of the world, a common sense.
Epic Forgetting
Rob Horning
I’d argue that since Silicon Valley is the sector that makes the fastest and most far-ranging developments in the forces of production—basically, machines and how we interact with them—it is sort of a stand-in “capital as such.” (In the *Grundrisse,* Marx describes the apogee of capitalism as the subsumption of labor under the totalizing power of machinery.
Big Tech's Class War Politics
John Ganz
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