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Multiple readings The Future Is Not Tech-Forward Policy & governance · 3 attributable reactions Multiple readings Data centers ai populism Policy & governance · 2 attributable reactions
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New Models & releases Analysis 5h ago
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AGI illusion language models essay

The Illusion of AGI, or What Language Models Can Do Without Thought

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Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Eryk Salvaggio
“I wrote more about what I mean about why I mark a difference between “intelligence” and “language production” here: techpolicy.press/the-illusion...” evidence ↗
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Eryk Salvaggio Luke Stark

“I wrote more about what I mean about why I mark a difference between “intelligence” and “language production” here: techpolicy.press/the-illusion...”

5 experts discussed this · 58 posts
Eryk Salvaggio: I find that, no matter how many ways I acknowledge LLMs etc are changing, people dismiss me as “crazy” or “unserious” because I refuse to attribute those changes to “intelligence.” I will say again…
Eryk Salvaggio: I understand that one functions as the other, but LLMs work by printing a path through a process that arrives at a completion point by tightening the tension between word salad and a legible destin…
Eryk Salvaggio: If you want to argue that this is some narrow specific *form* of intelligence, fine, but don’t scope-creep. A capacity for language production doesn’t automatically infer human-bound interpretation…
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Primary source techpolicy.press ↗
Established AI field signal Analysis 3d ago
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tech-forward future skepticism essay

The Future Is Not Tech-Forward

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Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Frank Pasquale
“Note “the possibility of communities forming compacts that establish minimum terms for data center development, allowing them to prevent firms from playing various jurisdictions against one another in a race to the bottom.” www.thetechbubble.info/p/the-futu…” evidence ↗
7 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Brian Merchant Taylor Lorenz Eryk Salvaggio Ali Alkhatib Edward Ongweso Jr Frank Pasquale Benjamin Riley
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Policy & governance

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Rules, institutions and accountability.

“This essay talks about the left's vision for technology, the "alliance" between left and right-wing anti-data center movements, politics of refusal, democratic control over the AI infrastructure buildout, China, industrial policy, and more. www.thetechbubbl…”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“Note “the possibility of communities forming compacts that establish minimum terms for data center development, allowing them to prevent firms from playing various jurisdictions against one another in a race to the bottom.” www.thetechbubble.info/p/the-futu…”

Research & technical analysis

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Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“surfacing for a minute to point out this good piece by @edwardongwesojr.com > Refusal is not just some impotent act of nostalgia, and the extent to which we think so is a measure of our contempt for the prospect of taking democratic politics seriously.”

Primary source thetechbubble.info ↗
Established Compute & infrastructure Signal 4d ago

Data centers ai populism

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Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Data & Society
“One way of reading the data center backlash "is as a many-headed protest against inevitability — about not just the technology itself but also the whole package of breakneck build-out, social disruption and insane wealth creation," writes @dwallacewells.bsk…” evidence ↗
5 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Justin Hendrix Data & Society Eryk Salvaggio Frank Pasquale Salomé Viljoen
Primary source nytimes.com ↗