Will
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Will
AI is aggregated human intelligence. So it’s better to call it collective intelligence than artificial intelligence.
Emphasizing the collectivity (something built on the commons) over the artificiality (a feat of technology) gives us an entire new way to see, perceive and relate to the technology.
-via Holly Herndon, in conversation with Ezra Klein
See Franklin Foer’s critique of this perspective in World Without Mind. Silicon Valley is chasing a metaphysical utopia of total unification, at the cost of privacy, autonomy, liberty etc.
it speaks to the enduring value of the written word for social movements: experiences of past struggles, positive as much as negative, need to be passed on to coming generations, or they will have to start from scratch. In the age of social media, books become not less but more important in this regard. Countering the evanescence of an update or... See more
Andreas Malm introduces Verso's new free ebook, Property Will Cost Us
Andreas Malm on the importance of books for activism in the age of social media
So here they are, my personal rules for blogging.
- Three posts a week, more or less.
- One idea per post. If I find myself launching into another section, cut and paste the extra into a separate draft post, and tie off the original one with the word “Anyway.” Then publish.
- No hedging, no nuance. If I’m getting in a twist about a sentence, take it out.
- Gi
15 rules for blogging, and my current streak
The real question is, where does scarcity still exist? It exists where it has always existed—in the distribution layer, with the limits on human attention. Artificial intelligence can generate abundance in creation, it can even create new currencies, but it cannot convert attention into currency. Only human beings can do that.
I’ll go even further... See more
I’ll go even further... See more
