Topic: Technology
Quotes
Max Weber, Economy And Society (1968)
- Had not rational calculation formed the basis of economic activity, had there not been certain very particular conditions in its economic background, rational technology could never have come into existence.#
Posts
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What Computer-Generated Language Tells Us About Our Own Ideological Thinking
Earlier this year, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research laboratory OpenAI built GPT-3, a 175-billion-parameter text-generating artificial intelligence. Compared to its predecessor, the humorously dissociative GPT-2, which had been trained on a data set less than one hundredth as large, GPT-3 is a startlingly convincing writer. It can answer questions . . .
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The Apparatus Cost of Net Neutrality
Net neutrality is a winning issue. Not only that, but people are likely to ignore libertarian arguments on the issue because it sounds a lot like what they love about the rule of law. General rules, non-discrimination, etc. The best argument against it is that the enforcement of net neutrality comes . . .