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In short, the idea of personal branding began as a ruse—a transparent sop being pitched in lieu of actual jobs or a stable income by companies and their management consultants, drunk on the cost savings and stock-price inflation born of sweeping downsizing and outsourcing.
And it will help you in many ways. It will notice your moods and know what to suggest. It will anticipate your needs and work to satisfy them. It will be your therapist, life coach, and relationship counselor.
AI and Trust
Schneier on Security
Generative models instead negate all those conceptions. They depend on the premises that there are no “new and original meanings;” that all meaning is already determined and does in fact stem from existing rules, rules that are not intractable but can be systematically extracted from data; that everything can be exchanged into everything else at a higher level of abstraction; that no moment is irreducible or “nonidentical,” to use one of Adorno’s terms.
Epic Forgetting
Rob Horning
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