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2025-06-23: VALERIE issue 3 is out! Also, my home server is now out of storage and set up. All darknet mirrors should be back up.
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2025-08-13: Friendly reminder that I have never paywalled ANY of my books and NEVER WILL. Anyone trying to sell you a copy of a book I have written is trying to scam you.
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Unmasking AI
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Joy Buolamwini
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Companies that claim to fear existential risk from AI could show a genuine commitment to safeguarding humanity by not releasing the AI tools they claim could end humanity.
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Empire of AI
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In 2023, Stanford researchers would create a transparency tracker to score AI companies on whether they revealed even basic information about their large deep learning models, such as how many parameters they had, what data they were trained on, and whether there had been any independent verification of their capabilities. All ten of the companies they evaluated in the first year, including OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, received an F; the highest score was 54 percent.
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The Algorithm
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I would read a text in German, my native language. After every question Christine asked, I read in German the Wikipedia entry for psychometrics, which deals broadly with measurements in psychology. Here is what I read: Die Psychometrie ist das Gebiet der Psychologie, das sich allgemein mit Theorie und Methode des psychologischen Messens befasst... And so on and so forth. No words in English crossed my lips. I thought after answering all the questions in German I would get an error message from the system saying it couldn't compute any scores. I was surprised when I got a message with the results. In fact, the AI gave me a score of 6 out of 9 for English competency, and overall my skill level in English was deemed "competent."
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Against Reduction
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A typical chilling forecast of AI is that it will be smarter, stronger, and more powerful than us, but the real fear should be that it might not be better. It could be instilled with values from our past, with less nuance, more bias, and replete with reductionist tropes.
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Feminist AI
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...such algorithms reinforce the status quo: those who have the most resources and the highest likelihood of success receive more resources. Through predictive algorithms, the past is recursively projected into the future, thus foreclosing options that could lead to more equitable distribution of resources and more diversity in the pool of those likely to succeed.
We need to move beyond thinking about creativity as a simple automatic process that can be "programmed" and engineered. Instead, we need to see it as a product of human creativity, a social behavior, an aspect of our nature that was not merely shaped by technology, but was instead shaped by human cultural experiences.
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How to Think About AI
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It's conceivable before long that there will, at some point, be robots that can run 100 metres faster than Usain Bolt or shoot lower scores on the golf course than Tiger Woods, even at their best. But would we be interested in this? You might well be if you are fascinated by robotic performance. But most of us were thrilled by Bolt and Woods in their prime precisely because they were flesh-and-blood humans like us... When we read great literature or listen to fine music or view superb paintings, part of the thrill is precisely that another human has been involved in the work - striving, communicating, creating, and, in turn, inspiring, stimulating, and elevating our lives. Again, an indispensable and intrinsic part of that experience is the knowledge that another human is at the other end... And so, no matter how capable our systems are, it's likely that many forms of human expression, not least live performance, will continue to be valued by humans for their own sake.
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Every Cradle is a Grave
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While the economic and well-being costs of having children are high, most of the "cost" of existence is borne by the children themselves, not by the parents in raising them. Parenting involves not just volunteering for the job of parent, but volunteering innocent children for the job of being people.
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What you’re doing when practicing your times tables or taking a standardized test or writing an essay isn’t learning, but preparing yourself to work... what each particular test is testing for, over and over again throughout our childhoods, is our capacity to perform work in its rawest form: to be presented with a series of problems and a rigid set of constraints in which to solve them, and to accomplish the task uncritically, with as much speed and efficiency as possible.
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What you're doing when practicing your times tables or taking a standardized test or writing an essay isn't learning, but preparing yourself to work... what each particular test is testing for, over and over again throughout our childhoods, is our capacity to perform work in its rawest form: to be presented with a series of problems and a rigid set of constraints in which to solve them, and to accomplish the task uncritically, with as much speed and efficiency as possible.
Nilles enthusiastically concluded that telecommuting was a viable option. He mentioned hesitations: supervisors would no longer be able to control their employees; and workers themselves might miss out on the social atmosphere of office life. But the company went forward with it. As soon as it began to be effective, the project was canned. It turned out managers felt threatened by telecommuting: they weren't able to control their employees in the same way as before and had to change their methods.
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The Refusal of Work
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...the necessity (need to survive) that pushes us to submit large portions of our lives to toil is no longer a harsh, inevitable fact of our existence in nature, but the imposition of an irrational and unjust social system, which not only distributes the available resources unevenly across the social hierarchy, but also manufactures new needs in order to warrant the extension of work.
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The Mythology of Work
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...what it must be like working in ROWE-inspired labour processes. Under this regime of work, life is not taken over and deprived by the prison-like monotony of timetables that have a clear beginning and end. Instead, life persists, but always within the shadow of a background master signifier that never sleeps, using postponement, planned incompetence and the employee's own anxieties to squeeze more work out of them.
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When we all become 'human capital' we not only have a job, or perform a job. We are the job. Even when the work-day appears to be over. This is what some have called the rise of bio-power, where life itself is put to work: our sociality, imagination, resourcefulness, and our desire to learn and share ideas... Self-exploitation has become a defining motif of working today. Indeed, the reason why so little is invested by large companies into training is because they have realized that workers train themselves, both on the job, using their life skills and social intelligence, and away from the job, on their own time.
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Make Your Own Job
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"If we want people to live by the work ethic, we've got to give them work," Clinton sermonized in a White House speech in 1994. "That's what our efforts... to develop community development banks are all about. And that's what our effort to pass a crime bill that would put another 100,000 police officers on the streets in grassroots communities are all about." The bill passed, and the United States' racialized surplus population kept flowing into prisons, where, of course, "informal entrepreneurship" continued to flourish, though not in any way that most management gurus believed to create value.