Join 📚 Izzy's Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what Izzy's read, .
Tolerance itself, generally surrounded by a beatific glow in American political discussion, is another evasion born of the race-racism switch. Its shallowness as a moral or ethical precept is plain. (“Tolerate thy neighbor as thyself” is not quite what Jesus said, Edward Mendelson, a colleague in the Columbia English department, reminds students in his classes.)
Racecraft
Barbara J. Fields, Karen Fields
Ideology is not a set of attitudes that people can “have,” as they have a cold, and throw off the same way. Human beings live in human societies by negotiating a certain social terrain, whose map they keep alive in their minds by the collective, ritual repetition of the activities they must carry out in order to negotiate the terrain. If the terrain changes, so must their activities, and therefore so must the map.
Racecraft
Barbara J. Fields, Karen Fields
Instead of demanding competition from public utilities, we enforce obligations. Like connecting every house, however remote, to telephones and electricity, even if the economic benefit of connecting that particular house will never outweigh the cost. Demanding transparency with our AI could be similar. Ultimately, it isn’t really likely even to be a cost burden to the corporations; systems that are transparent are easier to maintain and extend.
One Day, AI Will Seem as Human as Anyone. What Then?
wired.com
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise