Long-term unemployment doesn’t just deprive you of income. It disconnects you from the feedback circuits where recognition, relevance, and reality are conferred. The world continues, but the rhythm is no longer yours. You’re not simply on the outside—you’re out of phase. What long-term unemployment reveals, often with brutal clarity, is how thoroughly access to experience—joy, […]
The core question is that of continuity versus change. Not only do we find the genotypical logic of Aristotelian syllogisms whispering back to us in various ways in and as these aspirationally cognitive technologies, but we also find ourselves engaging in similarly antique philosophical reflections at almost every inflection point. Aligning personal experience and socioeconomic […]
What is perhaps most disturbing about the artival of autonomous systems and AI is not the plausible inevitability of monumental vocational disruption; it is that there are so few ongoing or persistent, well-informed and broadly-accessible public and (non-partisan) political discussions regarding the extent to which these upheavals will reshape entire economic, social and cultural value […]
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