Raw, unfinished ideas that may one day become essays.
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The Hidden Social Aggression of AI Progress
The main struggle of human civilization has always been competition for resources, and technological cycles still involve a forceful exchange, albeit more subtle and organized. AI progress is predicated on a tradeoff we have no real alternative but to comply with — and an economic actor enforcing its beliefs through control of the technology, without democratic consent, is an act of social aggression.…
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The Abundance Mirage: why the road to hell is paved in unchallenged assumptions
In the whole wasteland of AI discourse, there is perhaps no more dangerous proposition than "Abundance is universally good", a statement that is almost too tautological to be challenged. To illustrate my point, I'm going to walk you through a thought exercise in designing a dictatorship from the ground up without employing any obvious mechanisms for oppression.…
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Discovery vs Tokenmaxxing
Most current AI coding tools are steering users into tokenmaxxing and re-generating software from scratch, in complete ignorance of the vast amounts of publicly available, human-validated software that can be combined and modded in powerful ways to address 99% of use cases.…