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.
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AI isn’t coming to save us
Tag: cultural systems
There is, at present, a strange cultural requirement to pretend that billionaires are evidence of societal success rather than evidence of systemic imbalance.
Endless conflict persists not because it is healthy, just, or sustainable, but because fear is highly efficient at moving through uncertain human systems. What spreads easily is not always what nourishes. Fear can be structurally effective while being psychologically corrosive and socially disastrous. That distinction matters. Signals that bind attention quickly can still produce damaged […]
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Bad Bunny: Culture trumps Politics
America is presently in a phase of contraction rather than confidence: heightened suspicion of difference, attempts to reassert a singular national story, and a political atmosphere animated less by vision than by grievance and enforcement. Cultural life has not escaped this. Language, migration, race, and belonging are being pulled back into blunt, exclusionary frames, while […]
