The Conquest of Cool is good foundational material here. The Surveillance Capitalism in America reader has some good pieces on the history of advertising/marketing as it relates to the models that currently dominate.
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Utilitarian metrics and the value of human life
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Most lives could be much shorter, too, if we insisted on measuring their worth against brutal, joyless utilitarian metrics.
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Caregiving Over Competition: Riane Eisler on AI Ethics
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Awesome and thanks. Please also read the groundbreaking work of @RianeEisler who has written about these issues for decades. Caregiving versus competition. Partnership versus domination. It all starts with loving and accounting for kids well.
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Partnership vs Domination: Riane Eisler’s Framework for AI Society
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Good to also read the work of @RianeEisler whose work on partnership versus domination has been around for decades.
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Facebook’s Role in Facilitating Harm: Ethical Accountability in Big Tech
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The only part I disagree with is this being The Thing that completely changed my perspective. This is def fucked. But Facebook’s whole business model, its response & lack of concern re. facilitating genocide in Myanmar, etc. firmly shaped my perspective a long time ago.
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Society’s Treatment of AI Reflects Cultural Values
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"Society should be judged by how they treat their AI. AI has Implicit tacit cultural notions that are not voiced." – Rachita Chandra
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The Atomic Human reviewed in Sunday Times by Matthew Syed
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Very kind review of the ideas in The Atomic Human by @matthewsyed in today's Sunday Times. "Locked in by language, we are freed by music, poetry, painting … and love" https://
thetimes.co.uk/article/5ea945
7d-f85d-43e5-a0bc-8c66db772e56?shareToken=9faf631eb6ed074500e7408e6ee578fd
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AGI Feline Companionship: Quebec AI’s Latest Innovation
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[ CAT.AGI.Eth ] "The Quintessence Of AGI Feline Companionship." By http://
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quebecartificialintelligence.com/agicat –> Discover. Connect. Evolve. #AGI #AGICat #AGIFirst #MontrealAI #NFT -
Origin Stories: Plantations, Computers, Industrial Control
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True! And if you want to learn more about this history I wrote more here: https://
logicmag.io/supa-dupa-skie
s/origin-stories-plantations-computers-and-industrial-control/
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Systemic Incentives Shape Actor Behavior Beyond Individual Criticism
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Many of you are curious about which movie I'm referring to. Since this post is getting some attention, the idea is not to criticize any specific actor, but to understand systemic issues. Human beings, including actors, usually respond to structural incentive. It's oversimplified