The problem with raging against the machine is that the machine has learned to feed off rage
The problem with raging against the machine is that the machine has learned to feed off rage
this leads to static incentives in a dynamic world, and a sense of mindless repetition.
stealing • Retrofuturism
Keely Adler added
our machines often work only to the degree that we learn to conform to their patterns. Their magic depends upon the willing suspension of full humanity.
Substack • LaMDA, Lemoine, and the Allures of Digital Re-enchantment
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As a result, instead of optimizing our machines for humanity—or even the benefit of some particular group—we are optimizing humans for machinery.
Douglas Rushkoff • Program or Be Programmed
when the problem seems to come from the evolved shape of the machinery, rather from there being too little machinery, or bad specific content; then we call that a bias.
Eliezer Yudkowsky • Rationality
It’s not the technology they use but the will to conquer—the striving itself—that creates the core problem.
Douglas Rushkoff • Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
The Unaccountability Machine by Dan Davies is a fantastic book, which argues that people create these models because if you can reduce decision-making to an algorithm, or a formula, or a process, or a procedure, you avoid the risk of blame. Computer says no, effectively.
Instinctively, people love to codify things, and make them numerical, and turn ... See more
Instinctively, people love to codify things, and make them numerical, and turn ... See more
Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
Highlighting the consequences of an automatic society running amok, the late philosopher of technology Bernard Stiegler suggested that successive ages of technological proletarianization since the 19th century have resulted in human losses first in the knowledge of how to make and do (savoir-faire), followed by the knowledge of how to live (savoir-... See more