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A life that is cosmopolitan, which is to say, a life that belongs to no particular space or time, a life that knows no particular geography. There are no more local lives. Not in the great digital demimonde which acts as a totalizer and popularizer both.
Bobos in Ikea - By Brandon - Sweater Weather
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Note the obsessive use of abbreviations and avoidance of capital letters; [Unix] is a system invented by people to whom repetitive stress disorder is what black lung is to miners. Long names get worn down to three-letter nubbins, like stones smoothed by a river.
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My tentative theory here is that a well-run crowdsourced project has less need of AI assistance than an individual, because it is already "superintelligent" through the human network interactions, with fewer gaps in knowledge and expertise that need to be plugged by AI.
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