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Each semiconductor logic gate on a silicon chip needs a tiny electrical kick to change state, and there are millions of these events happening every second inside the racks of warehoused servers that provide the necessary computing resource.
Resisting AI
Dan McQuillan
Humankind is deeply ill. The species won’t last long. It was an aberrant experiment. Soon the world will be returned to the healthy intelligences, the collective ones. Colonies and hives.
The Overstory
Richard Powers
As an example, Campolo and Schwerzmann describe how 23andMe try to use data to “objectively” define ethnicity, an arbitrary sociopolitical concept invented by humans.
> To categorize a consumer's ancestry via DNA from a saliva sample, 23andMe relies on a group of initial testing subjects who are asked to self-identify based on what they know about their ancestors and their geographic origins. 23andMe then draws the lines around what it considers as forming a distinctive population by identifying and labeling genetic patterns discovered in the dataset.
The Blackbird Must Be Flying
Substack
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