The Who's Who of AI

“Here’s this week’s Better Offline. I walk you through how society continues to manage rather than deal with crises, and how the AI bubble is yet another crisis resulting from a failure to deal with the complexity of the real world. podcasts.apple.com/us/pod…”

“Second, disagreeing with @buddyyakov.bsky.social , Dean Ball is way, WAY more high modernist than the folks he wants to go after. For more on Dean's "Nick Land Meets the Universalized Unitary Executive," read Cosma and myself in extenso - knightcolumbia.org…”

“yup. Have you read this? knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a... It's very good.”

“Normal technologies are *fine*. But normal technologies do not warrant the massive economic and political commitments that have been bestowed upon AI: a trillion dollars in the past year alone, and the world's civil servants fired en masse and replaced with…”

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“"Our whole digital world has been wrapped in chains by rent-extracting monopolists who gloried in their power to use hook IP to deprive you of the right to use your property in ways you see fit, writing private laws that made it a crime to displease them." …”

“"A report from (Reset Tech) has revealed the seemingly co-ordinated campaign and linked it back to an influencer business in Sri Lanka. It found roughly 10 per cent of the network's pages have been monetised by Facebook" #deepfakes #disinformation www.abc.n…”

“AI is like a carny ride that triggers cardiac events in riders who never knew they had a problem because they never experienced those particular g-stresses - it's not something that *induces* vulnerability, it's something that *triggers* vulnerability: plur…”

“The first conventional chess-playing programs ran on electromechanical proto-computers, and they played a better game of chess than an LLM that uses *billions* of times more computing power and energy: www.organizedmoney.fm/p/an-ai-expe... 48/”

“'Groups publishing political ads during campaigns don’t need to be registered as third-party campaigners unless they specifically promote or oppose a party or candidate. Centre for Public Integrity says Victoria laws are narrower in scope than federal equiv…”