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The World Wide Web of Apartness - https://kinlane.com/2025/03/02/the-world-wide-web-of-apartness/
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, by Ursula K LeGuin - https://shsdavisapes.pbworks.com/f/Omelas.pdf
The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster - https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/Machine_stops.pdf
A Practical Utopian’s Guide to the Coming Collapse - https://thebaffler.com/salvos/a-practical-utopians-guide-to-the-coming-collapse
I Do Not Have Enough Ideas - https://kinlane.com/2025/02/28/i-do-not-have-enough-ideas/
“If you’re so rich, how come you’re not smart?” - The Unaccountability Machine, Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions—and How the World Lost Its Mind by Dan Davies - https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/U/bo252799883.html h/t @earth2marsh
@earth2marsh @api Our new repeat phrase from this book is "If you’re so rich, how come you’re not smart?” ;-) <3 ;-)
Spotless Mind Movie Rentals - https://alternate.kinlane.com/2025/02/26/spotless-mind-movie-rentals/
The Cover of Business Efficiency for Dangerous Ideology - https://kinlane.com/2025/02/26/the-cover-of-business-efficiency-for-dangerous-ideology/
Programming Music With the Player Piano on Corner of 58th - https://kinlane.com/2025/02/26/programming-music-with-the-player-piano-on-corner-of-58th/
I find the military origins of compute and AI are important, but overused, and I am compiling list of others:
- Babbage difference engine was managing slaves.
- Turing Test is entirely based upon lying.
- ML images was trained on criminal records.
- LLMs was trained on the toxicity of Reddit.
Kin Lane
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“Though gut emotions have always figured into politics, our most recent election was officially and unapologetically “vibes-based." Meanwhile, our masters of the universe are Twitter trolls and memelords. And our TikTok influencers turn natural disasters into nihilistic satire. We’re not just having more fun. We’re making important matters trivial. Amusement is the master virtue—everything must accommodate it.”
https://www.afterbabel.com/p/the-price-of-mass-amusement
@getambassador But I'll definitely push back on the left behind bit as I see outsourcing practices your teams should have strength in ensuring your company is left behind.
@getambassador Sure ping me at [email protected] and we can figure out if your podcast or mine. In the mean time I'll work on some of my argument against why. Look forward!! Thanks -- always love lively debate.
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"When I gave a talk in 2016, I asked my audience how many years they thought it would be before half of US households had adopted some of the year’s most hyped gadgets. A smart watch? A drone? A 3D printer? Virtual reality goggles? A self-driving car? Would these gadgets ever see 50% adoption? Turns out 'nope.' Or at least, one decade later, none of these – not even the smart watch – has reached that level." -Audrey Watters https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/not-so-fast/
@getambassador Additionally, it is just a much. more costlier approach than traditional artifacts and templates -- without that much gain.
@getambassador The austerity you are pointing to exists because of how previous tools are applied--AI is just accelerating that. The previous rounds of tools were applied in just the same way -- with external vendors believing it was solution, which was improperly applied by leadership.
@getambassador Well said, from the outside-in perspective. But that won't be how it gets used inside the enterprise. While your intent and belief is not to replace expertise it is very much seen as THAT within the enterprise. "adapt to new context, enforce standards, and avoid replicating previous errors" happens with the previous / current approach, but experts can also collaborate around context, negotiate standards, and understand previous errors.
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I am a writer, storyteller, and cybernetics researcher.
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