We are passing a turning point at which the value of human cleverness becomes actively obscured and wilfully excluded by technocratic over-reach.
Tag: Artificial Intelligence
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AI isn’t coming to save us
AI can not save us, but it will facilitate a vast amount of short-term profit. The actual human and environmental cost will be considerable.
Institutions rarely fail because they cannot recognise problems. They fail because recognising problems is not the same as escaping the conditions that reproduce them.
Language does not merely describe civilisation. It quietly engineers the conditions of its own persistence through us.
When everyone uses the same intelligence to compete for the same opportunities, intelligence ceases to be the advantage. Competition becomes the system’s principal output.
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enlightenment
Enlightenment begins where the search for certainty ends.
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pay the piper: hidden tariff
Every system sends the bill somewhere else until there’s nowhere left to send it.
Influence is the capacity of a communicative form to alter the probability distribution of future communication.
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Applied Field Logic: Why?
The aim of Applied Field Logic is to provide a common mathematical language for describing (ie systemic) patterns of organised persistence.
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mediated intimacy
Loneliness becomes a market when technology makes itself the bridge between people.
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crackpot optics
Unpopular ideas are not always wrong. Sometimes they simply fail to flatter the machine.
The technology sector is learning to metabolise its own disorder: turning instability into dependency, and dependency back into revenue.
