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Henry Farrell
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www.henryfarrell.net Now out with Abe Newman, Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554
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HFhimself.bsky.social

"All this is leading to the emergence of new economic divides between those who control the means of summarization, and those whose properties or livelihood risks being summarized into effective non-existence." www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-politi...

The political economy of AI
The political economy of AI

It's all about who gets what

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Related as AI involves statistics: "the production of means..."

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TFsifu.tweety.fish

one nice bit here for me is that you kind of allude to something I think is going to become increasingly apparent, that the value of "low background"/high quality human produced information (even explicitly as training data) could easily increase in a world of omnipresent supervised learning

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EMelfsternberg.bsky.social

Zuckerberg is committed to making the means of summarization available to the masses. Like a lot of niche CS math, summarization is a consequential side effect of generation. Zuckerberg is doing this because he believes it will destroy his lifelong enemy: anonymity.

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Kkapitaali.bsky.social

reminds me of Libre manifesto

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Henry Farrell
@himself.bsky.social
www.henryfarrell.net Now out with Abe Newman, Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554
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