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You are 100% right to worry that we've built an alien intelligence that we don't understand, can't control, and may well destroy us.
But you're mispronouncing the name... try it slowly with me: cap·i·tal·ism
The center of authority in this new system is no longer a visible personality, an all-powerful king: even in totalitarian dictatorships the center now lies in the system itself, invisible but omnipresent: all its human components, even the technical and managerial elite,
Under the pretext of saving labor, the ultimate end of this technics is to displace life, or rather, to transfer the attributes of life to the machine and the mechanical collective, allowing only so much of the organism to remain as may be controlled and manipulated.
Rest in peace, Bob. You were a giant nytimes.com/2024/10/06/books…
It is almost impossible for me to read Computer Scientists who, instead of saying “Petya washed his hands,” write:
If you work with computer tech you should read this
(every single day) - 'Not without us' by Joseph Weizenbaum
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1…
Finding resources for aging/sick parents is hard enough without companies that try to take advantage. For others going through this, here's a few TO AVOID:
1. Mabey's Moving and Storage (mabeys.com/)
2. Live in Place Designs (liveinplacedesigns.com/)
Others ?
Choose Your Weapon: Survival Strategies for Depressed AI Academics
arxiv.org/abs/2304.06035
Party in the ruins of Big Tech...
On 8th of March 2023, we call for a Counter Cloud Action Day
anarchaserver.org/8m/
With 216,000 regular AdNauseam users, each served ~100 ads per day, using an avg cost-per-click of $0.63, costs advertisers $63 of lost revenue per user. Multiply that by the # of users and you get $13,608,000 per day, or $4.9 billion per year clickcease.com/blog/adnausea…
The censored article was part of an academic journal produced by the Shared Campus program. The former HKBU professor, now forced to leave HK, was one of 20+ contributors to the issue, exploring “contamination” in the context of political & social events
shorturl.at/enuH2
