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Shared emphasis The Socialist Case Against Nationalizing AI Markets & investment · 2 attributable reactions
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Established Policy & governance Analysis 6d ago
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socialist case against AI nationalization

The Socialist Case Against Nationalizing AI

9 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Alex Hanna Juan Diego Rodriguez Hypervisible Paris Marx Ali Alkhatib 🌶 David Gray Widder Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Hagen Blix +1
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Markets & investment

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Capital, companies and commercial impact.

“"When we hear AI, we shouldn’t fall for the AI peddlers’ narratives of productivity explosions and mass unemployment. We should think of Taylorism, of the myriad ways in which capital centralizes knowledge, measures people, and carves up work in order to ma…”

4 experts discussed this · 9 posts
Eugene Vinitsky: I think it's reasonable to ask of a research program that purports to automate away all jobs that it provide a positive vision of the future more confident than "hey, maybe we'll "cure" cancer alon…
Eugene Vinitsky: I've been talking about this a lot lately and it just feels like the moral cases in the field are significantly less developed than they should be and it's eating at me a bit
Juan Diego Rodriguez: This eats at me all the time. I don’t know what to do about it
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Primary source jacobin.com ↗
Established AI field signal Development 14d ago
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AI fiction idiosyncrasies detection paper

AI Fiction Is Easy to Detect Because It's Stupid and Bad, Research Finds

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Olivia Guest 404 Media Chris Brockett Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. Ali Alkhatib Pavel By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

“ChatGPT uses too many dream sequences and Gemini won’t stop describing characters.”

“this is interesting but i'm reluctant to get very attached to these analytical methods. a lot of computing researchers live for puzzles; if you tell them LLM outputs are identifiable by certain rhetorical cliches or structural tendencies, they'll work the p…”

5 experts discussed this · 23 posts
Ali Alkhatib: this is interesting but i'm reluctant to get very attached to these analytical methods. a lot of computing researchers live for puzzles; if you tell them LLM outputs are identifiable by certain rhe…
Ali Alkhatib: this is sort of a fundamental problem with pangram IMHO. if you restrict yourself from thinking critically about the author(s) as such and only look at syntax, you paint yourself very narrowly into…
Hypervisible : Even if it’s “good” by some metric, I don’t want to read it because it has no perspective or viewpoint.
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Primary source 404media.co ↗
Developing Culture, work & education Analysis 1d ago
AI as boss not assistant essay

AI is not an assistant – it's your new boss (The Everything App part 2)

4 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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Ali Alkhatib Pavel

“Yeah, it's one of the things Nothing Managers love most about AI: they can completely isolate themselves from all other people”

4 experts discussed this · 11 posts
Pavel: Lots of thinkpieces about how workers should think of "AI agents" as colleagues. Which, sure. I've had colleagues I always avoid because getting them to do anything useful is like pulling teeth, an…
Ali Alkhatib: that colleague who traumatized data workers during their training period, produces deepfakes of unwilling women, has no connection to reality like you or me, and CANNOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES part…
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: In my last real “tech” job I was the designated guy who took all of the code the super-prolific “distinguished engineer” generated without any planning and put into production over the weekend, to …
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Primary source productpicnic.beehiiv.com ↗
Established AI field signal Analysis 6d ago
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Why we fear AI book essay

Why We Fear AI: On the Interpretation of Nightmares — Common Notions Press

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Ali Alkhatib Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Hagen Blix

“this piece arguing against nationalizing AI is really good. not surprised! @hagenblix.bsky.social and Ingeborg's book was a hit with the reading group when we read it a few months ago”

“I think adopting the "automation" frame is already falling for a bourgeois trap. What this mostly is about is deskilling, and deskilling is not a form to increase productivity, but to cheapen labor and thus shift the total social income form labor to capita…”

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Hagen Blix: See, so much AI stuff is just the subconscious of capital: "What if people didn't have to know things?" "What if we could just automate the realization of value, without input from pesky humans/con…
Hagen Blix: Read all about it here I guess 🤷
Long Lasting Mascot: “What if we have a system that turns everything into paperclips without thinking about why”
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Primary source commonnotions.org ↗
Established AI field signal Resource 19d ago
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AI Skeptics Reading Group

3 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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Ali Alkhatib Veni Kunche

“we're reading Techno-Negative and discussing chapter 1 today in about an hour. the icebreaker question is basically "what annoying AI shit got on your nerves for reasons that surprised or eluded you initially, that you can now explain (or maybe not)?" you c…”

3 experts discussed this · 9 posts
Ali Alkhatib: sickos dot jpeg
Ali Alkhatib: > "Creating is the fun part," he said. "Why would I want AI to take that away from me? The best part of comedy is figuring out the puzzle pieces of a joke and getting the self-regard from having ac…
Alex Hanna: sickos dot jpeg
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Primary source buttondown.com ↗
Debates gaining attention

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3 experts · 11 posts · 9h ago
Luke Stark Ali Alkhatib Andy Masley
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Luke Stark: Turned this rant into a blog post. davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/the-data-c...
Ali Alkhatib: on point 2, something i don't see proponents grapple with is that the current buildout is absolutely not the totality of data centers meant to be built. there will need to be more (and considerably…
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