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PaulGrahamRaven

@PaulGrahamRaven@assemblag.es

Science fiction writer turned tech critic turned STS/critical futures academic turned consulting critical foresight practitioner and worldbuilder-for-hire. Resident in (and aspiring citizen of) Malmö, Sweden.

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Loukas, to random
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Farage hit by yellow waves of milkshake

Loukas,
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nikolar, to random
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Snöflingor

Loukas, to random
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When I see Microsoft investing billions in "cloud infrastructure and AI" in Sweden my only question is: what shall we use the empty buildings for when the market for AI crashes? https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/microsoft-miljardsatsar-pa-ai-i-sverige

aworkinglibrary, to random
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Wrote about optimization vs resilience (with an assist from @debcha): https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/against-optimization

ancient_catbus, to random
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life under capitalism

baldur, to random
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Not going to link to the actual review because I don’t care and will not care about the movie in question, but I find it interesting how quickly and thoroughly the meaning of “AI” in the public vocabulary as shifted from “futuristic automated intelligence” to “bad and lazily made”

balslev, to random
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The fact that people’s judgement of the past can be tainted by arbitrary feelings of nostalgia, has no bearing on whether past phenomena were in fact better or worse. Or: Some aspects of the past might have been better, even if people feel nostalgic about them.

Daojoan, to random
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Tuchman's Law: "The fact of being reported multiplies the apparent extent of any deplorable development by five- to tenfold"

AKA

Be skeptical of the apparent frequency and severity of negative events as presented by the media and historical records, and remember that normal, everyday life is often much more stable and uneventful than it appears.

theluddite, to random
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The point of solar panels is not to ensure "solar profitability," but to make for a greener, better world. Its profitability is only justified insofar as it moves us towards that goal. If we want to switch to renewables, then sometimes we're going to have surplus, because of how renewables work. This is well known and discussed ad nauseam. If that makes power markets unstable, then the problem is with markets, not with there being too many solar panels.

theluddite,
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Alternate Headline: Capitalist rag admits artificial scarcity necessary for corporate profits.

Loukas, to random
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A Swedish acquaintance of mine has written a zombie submarine novel called "The Hunt for Dead October."

ancient_catbus, to random
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the difference between the fictional RoboCop and real police officers is RoboCop is haunted by memories of life as a human being

rra, to Luddite
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I’m a (and So Can You!) by Tom Humberstone

https://thenib.com/im-a-luddite/

Alt text by @accudio

https://alistairshepherd.uk/writing/im-a-luddite-alt-text/c

aworkinglibrary, to random
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We really haven’t learned a goddamn thing about female-gendered bots have we. (I wrote this eight fucking years ago.) https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/bots

aworkinglibrary,
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You cannot separate the ongoing fascination with creating femme AI servants from the ongoing efforts to restrict reproductive and trans rights. They are both part of a concerted effort to equate feminity with servitude, and to maintain caretaking as free and unwaged labor.

ancient_catbus, to random
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🎶the only card I need
is the Ace of Spades
the Ace of Spades🎶

danhon, to random
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Generative AI will allow so many people to be creative, like designing your product to be just like a character from someone else's film!

smolwaffle, to random
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Yes

vruba, to random

A little free advice from crusty old Uncle Charlie: When an “AI” company (like any other company) says they have to stop doing something because the way they were doing it was dangerously good, our first reaction should be “wow, a PR strategy” and not “wow, it was TOO GOOD, imagine!”

HadasWeiss, to random
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“listen to your body”

my body: good morning. now hunch over & stare at the screen for 16 hrs

propagandacentralen, to random Swedish
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tef, to random
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not to call ai a big woop of nothing but slack absolutely slaughtering any remaining trust they have in order to provide "emoji suggestions" is incredible

tef,
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moore's law but it's the number of clowns in the clown car doubling every 18 months

HadasWeiss, to random
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academia is just making mental notes of how you don’t want to act when you become a prof and then never becoming a prof

jasonpettus, to random
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Your occasional reminder that in a tech industry full of failed promises and customer exploitation, the only people TRULY benefiting are the sociopath employees hopping from one company to the next, destroying everything they touch before failing upwards to the next doomed project. https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/15/anthropic-hires-instagram-co-founder-as-head-of-product/

HadasWeiss, to random
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performance-enhancing drug but for relaxing

seatek, to random
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🙇‍♂️

GuerillaOntologist, to random
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If you're surprised, you shouldn't be.

[Market-based schemes not reducing deforestation, poverty: Report]
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-based-schemes-deforestation-poverty.amp

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