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Umělá inteligence jako sociální technologie

Henry Farrell a Cosma Rohilla Shalizi

"Žádný vědecký model, organismus nebo artefakt nemůže zachytit
své prostředí v úplné podrobnosti."

"Slepá místa jsou nevyhnutelným rysem všech abstrakcí."

"Byrokratická hierarchie... je základní oporou velké lidské
civilizace."

Dlouhý článek, přes 65000 znaků. Rozsáhla bibliografie.
Anglicky.

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#tg717157152 Složité. Je v slozite.txt .
https://knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-as-social-technology .
#HenryFarrell #CosmaShalizi .

Pluralistic: Europe takes a big step towards a post-dollar world (11 Feb 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/11/post-dollar-world/

Pluralistic: Europe takes a big step towards a post-dollar world (11 Feb 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/11/post-dollar-world/

Pluralistic: Europe takes a big step towards a post-dollar world (11 Feb 2026)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/11/post-dollar-world/

Pluralistic: Europe takes a big step towards a post-dollar world (11 Feb 2026)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/11/post-dollar-world/

Pluralistic: Europe takes a big step towards a post-dollar world (11 Feb 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/11/post-dollar-world/

"This isn’t brainwashing - people don’t have to internalize this or that aspect of what social media presents to them, radically changing their beliefs and their sense of who they are. That sometimes happens, but likely far more rarely than we think. The more important change is to our beliefs about what other people think, which we perpetually update based on social observation."

#HenryFarrell, 2025

https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getting-the-social-media-crisis

ie 'nudging'. You read this piece @pluralistic?

"The fundamental problem, as I see it, is not that social media misinforms individuals about what is true or untrue but that it creates publics with malformed collective understandings.”

#HenryFarrell, 2025

https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getting-the-social-media-crisis

#HatTip to @laurenshof for bringing my attention to this piece in one of his;

https://connectedplaces.online/the-digital-services-act-and-theories-of-power/

#SocialMedia #MediaTheory

Pluralistic: Trump and the unmighty dollar (26 Jan 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/26/i-dont-want/

Pluralistic: Trump and the unmighty dollar (26 Jan 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/26/i-dont-want/

Pluralistic: Trump and the unmighty dollar (26 Jan 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/26/i-dont-want/

Pluralistic: Trump and the unmighty dollar (26 Jan 2026)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/26/i-dont-want/

Pluralistic: Trump and the unmighty dollar (26 Jan 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/26/i-dont-want/

#HenryFarrell reads #ErnestGellner : https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/what-is-civil-society-and-why-should

#HenryFarrell on #HahrietHan https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/what-the-left-can-learn-from-evangelical :

... why some organizations can change the world around them, while others are less successful... the difference between "transactional mobilizing,” and “transformational organizing.” Lots of organizations focus on lowering the transaction costs of doing things - pressing a button to send an email expressing outrage to a politician. However, it is the ones that get people involved in deeper ways and build relationships that can forge enduring communities. Organizations do this less often than they might, because building such relationships is messy, difficult and hard.

... how organizations win people over and provide them with opportunities to do things.

... people organized into small groups if each person belonged to only one. They generally ranged from six to ten people...

Small groups created honeycombs of intimacy, connection, and loyalty in those churches. As French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville wrote, “In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge.” Because people do not naturally possess the skills and inclinations for working with one another, they need venues for learning. Small groups taught people through concrete experience how to act together.

Small groups provide a kind of social glue then, allowing people with different interests or problems to come together, and perhaps support each other. They explain why... so attractive to... movement, as a kind of social substrate to provide it with energy and volunteers. But they also help explain why people are attracted to these... in the first place... provide a community where different people with different interests and problems can find others like them, provided those interests are compatible with the overall mission... That broader mission isn’t set in stone, and is sometimes contested. Arguments over what the mission... ->

What interests me about these "big systems,"
where #HenryFarrell proposes science about them,
is the relationship of us, little dwarfs, to them.

Namely:

Okay, we use them. But:

Let's not consider them divine(??) creators of truth, values, experiences(?)...

Truth, values, experiences happen
in lived(?) bodily(?) relationships
of us,
little dwarfs,
little monkeys.

The life of individuals
and society
is the life of parasites
on big systems.

Mold
on their surface.

That about us:
dwarfs, monkeys, bodies, parasites, mold...
By this I mean to separate enthusiasm
from large systems;
not to humiliate.

We are those
in whose eyes there is beauty,
in whose hearts there are values,
in whose minds there is truth,
in whose actions there is love.

And this is not given to us
by large systems,
nor by Mother Nature,
nor by God the Father.
This is what we give to each other.
Solidarity.
Community.

#enEU #tg444269288🧵

What interests me about these "big systems,"
where #HenryFarrell proposes science about them,
is the relationship of us, little dwarfs, to them.

Namely:

Okay, we use them. But:

Let's not consider them divine(??) creators of truth, values, experiences(?)...

Truth, values, experiences happen
in lived(?) bodily(?) relationships
of us,
little dwarfs,
little monkeys.

The life of individuals
and society
is the life of parasites
on big systems.

Mold
on their surface.

That about us:
dwarfs, monkeys, bodies, parasites, mold...
By this I mean to separate enthusiasm
from large systems;
not to humiliate.

We are those
in whose eyes there is beauty,
in whose hearts there are values,
in whose minds there is truth,
in whose actions there is love.

And this is not given to us
by large systems,
nor by Mother Nature,
nor by God the Father.
This is what we give to each other.
Solidarity.
Community.

#enEU #tg444269288🧵

What interests me about these "big systems,"
where #HenryFarrell proposes science about them,
is the relationship of us, little dwarfs, to them.

Namely:

Okay, we use them. But:

Let's not consider them divine(??) creators of truth, values, experiences(?)...

Truth, values, experiences happen
in lived(?) bodily(?) relationships
of us,
little dwarfs,
little monkeys.

The life of individuals
and society
is the life of parasites
on big systems.

Mold
on their surface.

That about us:
dwarfs, monkeys, bodies, parasites, mold...
By this I mean to separate enthusiasm
from large systems;
not to humiliate.

We are those
in whose eyes there is beauty,
in whose hearts there are values,
in whose minds there is truth,
in whose actions there is love.

And this is not given to us
by large systems,
nor by Mother Nature,
nor by God the Father.
This is what we give to each other.
Solidarity.
Community.

#enEU #tg444269288🧵

What interests me about these "big systems,"
where #HenryFarrell proposes science about them,
is the relationship of us, little dwarfs, to them.

Namely:

Okay, we use them. But:

Let's not consider them divine(??) creators of truth, values, experiences(?)...

Truth, values, experiences happen
in lived(?) bodily(?) relationships
of us,
little dwarfs,
little monkeys.

The life of individuals
and society
is the life of parasites
on big systems.

Mold
on their surface.

That about us:
dwarfs, monkeys, bodies, parasites, mold...
By this I mean to separate enthusiasm
from large systems;
not to humiliate.

We are those
in whose eyes there is beauty,
in whose hearts there are values,
in whose minds there is truth,
in whose actions there is love.

And this is not given to us
by large systems,
nor by Mother Nature,
nor by God the Father.
This is what we give to each other.
Solidarity.
Community.

#enEU #tg444269288🧵

What interests me about these "big systems,"
where #HenryFarrell proposes science about them,
is the relationship of us, little dwarfs, to them.

Namely:

Okay, we use them. But:

Let's not consider them divine(??) creators of truth, values, experiences(?)...

Truth, values, experiences happen
in lived(?) bodily(?) relationships
of us,
little dwarfs,
little monkeys.

The life of individuals
and society
is the life of parasites
on big systems.

Mold
on their surface.

That about us:
dwarfs, monkeys, bodies, parasites, mold...
By this I mean to separate enthusiasm
from large systems;
not to humiliate.

We are those
in whose eyes there is beauty,
in whose hearts there are values,
in whose minds there is truth,
in whose actions there is love.

And this is not given to us
by large systems,
nor by Mother Nature,
nor by God the Father.
This is what we give to each other.
Solidarity.
Community.

#enEU #tg444269288🧵

Mné na těch "velkých systémech",
kde #HenryFarrell navrhuje vědu o nich,
zajímá vztah nás, trpaslíčků, k nim.

Totiž:

Dobrá, používáme je. Ale:

Nepovažujme je, za božské(??) tvůrce pravdy, hodnot, prožívání(?)...

Pravda, hodnoty, prožívání se dějí
v žitých(?) tělesných(?) vztazích
nás,
trpaslíčků,
opiček.

Život jednotlivců
a společnosti,
je život parazitů
na velkých systémech.

Plíseň
na jejich povrchu.

Že o nás:
trpaslíčci, opičky, těla, paraziti, plíseň...
Tím míním odtrhnout nadšení
od velkých systémů;
nikoliv ponížit.

My jsme ti,
v jejichž očích je krása,
v jejichž srdcích jsou hodnoty,
v jejichž myslích je pravda,
v jejichž činech je láska.

A toto nám nedávají
velké systémy
ani matka příroda
ani Bůh Otec.
Tímto se obdarováváme navzájem.
Souručenství.
Spolek.

#tg444269288🧵

#HenryFarrell https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/understanding-ai-as-a-social-technology