Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product partnerships at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
As Cosma and I, and Alison and James have written:
We now have a technology that does for written and pictured culture what largescale markets do for the economy, what large-scale bureaucracy does for society, and perhaps even comparable with what print once did for language. What happens next?
We now have a technology that does for written and pictured culture what largescale markets do for the economy, what large-scale bureaucracy does for society, and perhaps even comparable with what print once did for language. What happens next?
Rather than shoving all our debates into a single, hellish town square, let each town have its own, and let us work to make each a place of fruitful exchange.
Jon Askonas • Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs
Every advancement in democratic rights — every extension, every improvement — is met sooner or later by a counter reaction, because there are some forces or folks that do not want to tolerate real democracy, who feel like their interests are threatened if there really is democracy. ... The story is not a story of continuous improvement or
... See moreWorking in technology means one thing above all else: chasing scale. There is a reason why much of the tech world is obsessed with growth. Free from physical constraints, digital systems can scale to an incomprehensible size. The appeal of conquering the engineering, design and business challenges of mega-scale is strong, the rewards immense. But
... See moremany “social network” products/platforms think they’re just tech, but really they’re socio-technical systems, and part of the reason they break “at scale” is bc while the software might scale, other systems like safety & moderation don’t necessarily scale as easily. A single player (e.g) calculator app is tech/software only, social platforms are more than that.
Creating an Independent Public Ledger of Credentials (PLC) Directory Organization | Bluesky
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By continuing to pursue these lines of thought, we develop new ways of framing our interactions with the dead online, and may find pathways for breaking our calcified archival imaginaries and reimagine new ways of living with the data bodies we construct, inhabit, and inherit.
Sarah Wambold & Rem Moore: Only Loss
To understand the social consequences of LLMs and related forms of AI, we ought consider them as social technologies. Specifically, we should compare them and their workings to other social technologies (or, if you prefer, modes of governance), mapping out how they transform social, political and economic relations among human beings.
