#inevitabilism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #inevitabilism, aggregated by home.social.
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Inevitabilism is the next enshittification.🤖💩
https://www.begiant.ca/stories/people/cory-doctorow-life-after-ai
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Inevitabilism is the next enshittification.🤖💩
https://www.begiant.ca/stories/people/cory-doctorow-life-after-ai
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“#PopeLeoXIV’s encyclical #MagnificaHumanitas has been generally understood as a tech-critical document, but in fact, the text bespeaks an acquiescence to technological development as the natural course of human events.
Indeed, it exhibits several of the most unsatisfying features of the current American debate: #inevitabilism, an emphasis on historical continuity, an absence of specificity, and a touch of the very technocratic hubris the pope condemns.”
https://www.compactmag.com/article/what-pope-leo-should-have-said-about-ai/
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“#PopeLeoXIV’s encyclical #MagnificaHumanitas has been generally understood as a tech-critical document, but in fact, the text bespeaks an acquiescence to technological development as the natural course of human events.
Indeed, it exhibits several of the most unsatisfying features of the current American debate: #inevitabilism, an emphasis on historical continuity, an absence of specificity, and a touch of the very technocratic hubris the pope condemns.”
https://www.compactmag.com/article/what-pope-leo-should-have-said-about-ai/
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“AI didn’t take your agency, Chad — you outsourced it to a decision matrix and a productivity app named after a woodland animal.” 🧠📉 #Inevitabilism #AIhumor #ExistentialUX
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“AI didn’t take your agency, Chad — you outsourced it to a decision matrix and a productivity app named after a woodland animal.” 🧠📉 #Inevitabilism #AIhumor #ExistentialUX
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🤖 #AI inevitabilism: the ultimate excuse for your lack of decision-making skills. 🎯 Tom Renner serves up 479 words of existential dread, cleverly disguised as a debate tutorial. Spoiler: AI isn't stealing your freedom, your own #indecisiveness is. 😂
https://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/ #Inevitabilism #DecisionMaking #ExistentialDread #TomRenner #HackerNews #ngated -
🤖 #AI inevitabilism: the ultimate excuse for your lack of decision-making skills. 🎯 Tom Renner serves up 479 words of existential dread, cleverly disguised as a debate tutorial. Spoiler: AI isn't stealing your freedom, your own #indecisiveness is. 😂
https://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/ #Inevitabilism #DecisionMaking #ExistentialDread #TomRenner #HackerNews #ngated -
AI inevitabilism is a framing device designed to remove your freedom of choice
https://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/
#HackerNews #AI #Inevitabilism #FreedomOfChoice #FramingDevice #TechEthics #CriticalThinking
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AI inevitabilism is a framing device designed to remove your freedom of choice
https://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/
#HackerNews #AI #Inevitabilism #FreedomOfChoice #FramingDevice #TechEthics #CriticalThinking
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#AIHype completely misunderstands the point of #ScienceFiction
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#AIHype completely misunderstands the point of #ScienceFiction
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CW: Long thread/7
This has a lot in common with science fiction, a genre full of thought experiments that ask #Heinlein's famous three questions:
* What if?
* If only, and
* If this goes on...
These contrafactuals are incredibly useful and important. As critical tools, science fiction's parables about the future are the best chance we have for resisting the #inevitabilism that insists that technology *must* be used in a certain way, or must exist at all.
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CW: Long thread/7
This has a lot in common with science fiction, a genre full of thought experiments that ask #Heinlein's famous three questions:
* What if?
* If only, and
* If this goes on...
These contrafactuals are incredibly useful and important. As critical tools, science fiction's parables about the future are the best chance we have for resisting the #inevitabilism that insists that technology *must* be used in a certain way, or must exist at all.
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That's why they're so invested in the idea that - as #MargaretThatcher endlessly repeated - "#ThereIsNoAlternative":
https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/08/tina-v-tapas/#its-pronounced-tape-ass
#Inevitabilism is a cheap rhetorical trick. "There is no alternative" is a demand disguised as a truth. It really means "Stop trying to think of an alternative."
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That's why they're so invested in the idea that - as #MargaretThatcher endlessly repeated - "#ThereIsNoAlternative":
https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/08/tina-v-tapas/#its-pronounced-tape-ass
#Inevitabilism is a cheap rhetorical trick. "There is no alternative" is a demand disguised as a truth. It really means "Stop trying to think of an alternative."
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Capital's greatest weapon in this battle is #inevitabilism, sometimes called #CapitalistRealism, summed up with #FredericJameson's famous quote "It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism" (often misattributed to #Žižek). A simpler formulation can be found in the doctrine of #MargaretThatcher: "There Is No Alternative," or even #Dante's "#AbandonHope all ye who enter here."
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Capital's greatest weapon in this battle is #inevitabilism, sometimes called #CapitalistRealism, summed up with #FredericJameson's famous quote "It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism" (often misattributed to #Žižek). A simpler formulation can be found in the doctrine of #MargaretThatcher: "There Is No Alternative," or even #Dante's "#AbandonHope all ye who enter here."
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