Thought provoking
Infrastructure for Interdependence: Building technology in service of collective power
leaflet.pubGood to see innovation in social networks that is designed for users and groups themselves.
The Practice Problem
educationnext.org
A bleak essay, but I have quibbles: for example, why wouldn’t super intelligent beings have art? (Incomprehensible art to humans, most likely, but still art.)
Against Compression
newcartographies.com
One of the better “contra AI” articles I’ve read. Interesting that it closes with a poem, because poetry is one of the better examples of intelligent compression around, along with metaphors. Possibly misquoting Randall Jarrell on Wallace Stevens more abstract poems: “It is G.E. Moore at the spinet”. An LLM can explain it to you, but it hits with more force if you’ve read Jarrell, Stevens, and Moore, and have ever listened to a spinet. (I can check 1, 2, and 4, but not 3.) Compression is most powerful when you have some idea of what’s being compressed.
Lots of great quotes in this one, about politics and Americanism.