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“Thought-provoking”

Yes, but that does not mean AI has 0 influence. Rather, AI is a circle, a shape with no beginning or end, suggesting that AI has endless and infinite potential. Now, let’s say you want to remove AI from the equation - imagining a world without AI. What happens when you divide by zero? You can’t, because dividing by zero is undefined. Thusly, a world (future or past) without AI is now an impossibility. This is simply the laws of mathematics.

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Mix of libgen and local bookstores, including my town’s anarchist bookstore!

I’m juggling “If We Burn” by Jason Bevins, “Postcapitalist Desire” by Mark Fisher, and “Double Shift” by Jason Read. I’m not familiar with Jason Read but the description of the book had me intrigued

Explaining to my therapist that I hate therapy even though I am training to be a therapist

Here is a pdf of the paper mentioned in OP.

Jason Hickel, one of the authors of that paper, also wrote a good one about unequal exchange, showing that poverty in the Global South is pretty much created and maintained by Global North countries who drain land, labour, and goods from the South to feed their greed and overconsumption. This unequal exchange (or ‘drain’) amounts to about 30x what Global South countries receive in aid, and it is enough to eliminate extreme poverty dozens of times over.

Love that a sizeable part of Jason Hickel’s career is just publishing empirical works that debunk neoliberal and Western propaganda. o7

An example comment from tankies on Zelensky: “Putin and our comrades in Ukraine are going to kill all the US financed nazi scum and hopefully hang Zelensky while they’re at it. Let’s go Brandon!”

For an ideology that preaches equality and opportunity, liberalism sure does a lot to justify why some people need to suffer

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every now and then you see a meme that’s so good you want to show a friend but you also don’t want to commit die to your social life

You should really read about autistic advocacy before debating about the ethics of editing out autism/autistic traits from the human genome.

https://autisticadvocacy.org/ https://autisticadvocacy.org/about-asan/what-we-believe/

Yeah, that’s very true, thank you. Social media is really just offering new ways for people to commodify themselves

Yeah, that’s fair. It’s odd because that’s how my main socials work, but I have a side-gig kinda thing that relies on “content-ifying” me and my thang, so it creates a lot of cognitive dissonance for me :(

I’ve been reading a lot about neoliberalism, mainly from Wendy Brown and David Harvey, and they describe how neoliberalism has convinced people to apply “market rationality” to every aspect of their lives, re: investing in yourself (e.g., human capital), cost-benefit analysis of everyday decisions, min-maxing, productivity fetishism, etc….

A thought I had today was about how social media, at least under neoliberal capitalism, has encouraged so many people to think of themselves and their actions through the lens of “content”… just like how every personal decision under neoliberalism has to be justified in economic terms, now there is a “content-ification” of major parts of our lives

Both dehumanize along similar lines, but through different ways I guess. Has anyone written about this, like in a blog or a book?

I don’t think that was me, but that’s really heartwarming to hear it helped you in that way

I probably feel similarly, as someone who got diagnosed last year in my mid-20’s… if it wasn’t for some memes that were concerningly relatable, I’d probably still be undiagnosed and unmedicated, and fighting way harder to function the same. I probably cried the first time I watched the wall of awful video, lmao. I’m a softie and it made me feel seen and understood in a way that is really rare.

Relevant ADHD- and EF-related post about the so-called “Wall of Awful”, which explains why it can be so hard to do things sometime, and reminds us to see the work we’re doing even if it’s not necessarily materialized

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Uo08uS904Rg

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… is it really that bad to ask for clarification about the random wiki screenshot and historical event you brought up?

In my “First Reformed” era

Oh absolutely. It’s a huge issue, especially in humanities and social sciences, where the barrier of entry makes it so that almost all published research is conducted by certain populations on themselves. Some people call it “WEIRD” populations, meaning western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (though that “weird” terminology is a bit stinky… I’m looking at the “E” and “D”). Interestingly, China has now overtaken the US in publishing the most highly cited research of any country, though I think their advances are mostly in natural sciences and engineering.

There are also issues with how we qualify good quality or *academic * research. Again, this is especially the case in social sciences and humanities where the standards have been set by colonial researchers who had the means to run expensive studies on large samples. As a result, a lot of research methodologies and ways of knowing that don’t align with the western colonial standards (e.g., qualitative research, narrative analysis) get discounted or written off entirely