The phony comforts of useful idiots
thetechbubble.substack.com
thetechbubble.substack.com
(If any of you are interested, I think the abstract core of the issue is about the porous boundary between excludability & rivalry*)
Since we're doing anti-Soviet puns:
1. From the top comment (imho comments are usually more thoughtful than essays :)
This philosophy of lack of accountability, of detaching individuals from the consequences of their choices is to me the fundamental flaw at the heart of... well, I was going to say "Western democracy" but that's a dubious expression, so whatever it is we live under now.
Is it not enough to tax corporate personhood (or *cough* AI-hood or *cough* useful parrot-cy or cough agen-cy) as a public resource, then?!
[Luckily, search engines haven't become sentient.. yet]
>Stafford Beers’ cybernetic perspective on corporate organization (Beers is the originator of “The purpose of a system is what it does")
https://archive.today/latest/https://thetechbubble.substack....
2. Also from top comment (Potemkin AI pdf alt link)
https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edited-volume/5319/chapter/3...
So called AI is the one with the burden to prove things.
Skepticism is a natural position of repose.
Nice try, though. I wonder when the shrill attempts at jamming LLMs down everyone's throat will realize that trying to act entitled to do so doesn't work either.
> Anyone who is telling you criticism slots into “real” or “fake” or “sucks” or “dangerous” is at best a useful idiot desperate for a comforting narrative that’ll provide some phony comfort. If you’re interested in understanding the world, ignore such fools.