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Multiple readings Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object & Tool Research & technical analysis · 2 attributable reactions
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New AI field signal Analysis 7h ago
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AI as social science field essay

Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object & Tool

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Alondra Nelson Luke Stark Henry Farrell Nancy Baym Social Media Lab Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo
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“Heartily endorsing this important piece! As I argued earlier this year, social research did not just emerge from a prior moment of social change, it did crucial sensemaking about that change, up to and including the present. That work must continue and be i…”

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“Food for thought... "Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object & Tool" www.amacad.org/publication/...”

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Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo: "...W. E. B. Du Bois insisted that technological change could not be understood apart from relations of power, particularly those structured by race and empire." www.amacad.org/publication/...
Alondra Nelson: "...W. E. B. Du Bois insisted that technological change could not be understood apart from relations of power, particularly those structured by race and empire." www.amacad.org/publication/...
Alondra Nelson: Thank you for reading and sharing.
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Established AI field signal Analysis 12d ago
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AI social technology framework essay

AI as Social Technology

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Justin Hendrix Henry Farrell Eli Sennesh Karen Gregory Carlos Scheidegger Chris Marsden

“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.”

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Isaiah Bishop: you contribute to the RL, you get the equity
rev. howard arson: i keep saying this but LLMs are almost ideally shaped for collective ownership. the union idea is a super interesting direction to go with that
Carlos Scheidegger: yup. Have you read this? knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a... It's very good.
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Reify This ideas letter essay

Reify This

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Ben Recht Henry Farrell ae Tyler Shoemaker

“Reify This! www.theideasletter.org/essay/reify-...”

“This little sentence in last month’s encyclical helped (=goaded) @leifw.bsky.social, @beenwrekt.bsky.social, and me to tie off some threads that spun out of the Cultural AI conference in March “Reify This”: www.theideasletter.org/essay/reify-...”

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Ben Recht: In _The Ideas Letter_, Leif Weatherby, Tyler Shoemaker, and I wrote about the creation of reality through pseudoscience, religion, and psychosis. Of course, the piece is mostly about AI.
Ben Recht: I still can't get over the hero image. Priceless.
Hagen Blix: "If you ask interpretability or alignment researchers how that might come about, you will receive hours-long, mind-numbing lectures about the long-term future of humanity cast in some of the most i…
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Henry Farrell

“this is a very interesting piece. The counterargument, made by people like Anton Leicht, is that data centers are very expensive, immovable and vulnerable to state action (see also journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...). The counter-counter is the (rhetorica…”

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Henry Farrell: this is a very interesting piece. The counterargument, made by people like Anton Leicht, is that data centers are very expensive, immovable and vulnerable to state action (see also journals.sagepub…
Robin Berjon: I was also thinking of Kathy Thelen & JS Tan with a similar argument (which I can't seem to find again). But then again, so are military bases. The idea that localisation increases sovereignty (if …
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Maxim Raginsky Henry Farrell rev. howard arson Mary Branscombe Matthew Sheffield
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 2 Policy & governance · 1
Henry Farrell: I think he was perfectly genuine in his beliefs and you still see occasional Joseph Heath type notions in his writing, but he fell in with a bad/weird crowd and convinced himself that democracy was…
Henry Farrell: There is a How Nick Land Thought Drove A Small Contingent of Right-Centrist Washington DC Policy Wonks Into Shrill Unholy Madness longform article that someone needs to write, but it is not me (I o…
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