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Trias Algorithmica: What Code Rules
More and more voices around the world are acknowledging our algorithmically mediated reality. Reality is to say that algorithmic systems are algorithmic power. In March 2023, the Future of Life Institute and thousands of signatories, including Yoshua Bengio, Stuart Russell, @Yuval Noah Harari, and Steve Wozniak, called for a six-month pause in training AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. This asks for the power to pause. Later that year, Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson call
Hamilton Mann
15 hours ago4 min read
The Real AI Race Is Not The One You Think
he race for AI has become the new black, the dominant obsession of our time, the trend no institution, company, or government wants to appear to miss. It is framed as progress, justified in the name of competitiveness, and presented as inevitable.
Hamilton Mann
Mar 231 min read
Endurability, the driving force for the next industrial revolution
Endurability, not just durability, is the defining issue of the coming decades. Over the past ten years, a growing and amplifying awareness of ecological concerns has emerged. Some facts are no longer just a warning of an imminent threat, but a situation of life on earth whose parameters are vastly different from the standard on which the comfort of industrialized countries was established: As per a 2013 publication in Nature by a team of international scientists, "The Plioc
Hamilton Mann
Feb 2, 20239 min read
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