Although I like where this satire is coming from, I find the actual execution to feel a little bit too strawmannish.
Aicracy – Governed by Algorithms
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#12Algocracy [1] sounds somewhat better, but as any barbarism, Medieval Latin algorismus, a mangled transliteration of the Arabic al-Khwarizmi + kratos, Ancient Greek word for power, is just as wrong.
The issue however is that society does not have a technology problem, it has a metaphysics problem: under, over, and for what should there be a we. Hence why all the futures we imagine through technology can barely go beyond a boring distopia.
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#13I quite fancy a Productivity Chair. When I work, I get a normal chair, but if I want to procrastinate I get all the benefits of a standing desk!
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#14Does attempting to offload decision making to an "AI/Algo/ML tool/whatever" not simply suffer from the same problem models/scientific studies/corporations/governments/whatever suffer from already?
Externalities?
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#15I expected this to be dystopian but nevertheless was extremely relieved to to see it explicitly labeled as such towards the end. Remember that only 18 months or so ago, during the crypto hype, the legal aspect of this was actively touted as some utopic feature of blockchains.
What's the point if the conclusion has already been made by the authors? Such "discussion" with a presumed bias becomes merely a statement or an echo chamber.
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#16Thunderhead is here
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#17It is conceivable that the rushed and breathless attempt to remove the human from the loop (more precisely, to have a small minority of humans exert unprecedented control over others via digital channels) will lead to the exact opposite: deepening our appreciation for humanity, an era of a new, digitally inspired, humanism if you wish.
This backlash plays out simultaneously both in the "AI" domain (the algorithmic classification, influencing or reproduction of human behavior) and the "crypto" domain (the algorithmic facilitation and management of "value" and credit accounting between humans)
Dystopia or Utopia? Odds are still on the former but its not a done deal yet.
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#18I've actually discussed the same idea with friends. My western friends find the idea very repulsive, where for me with my mixed east-west background find it worthy of exploration.
IMO the west's ideals reflects their history of loosely-confederated tribes, e.g. the Germanic and Frankish tribes. Centralised governments are the exception (the Roman empire, lasting only a few hundred years).
Compare this with the east with China being the center of eastern civilisation for more than 2000 years. Education, order and standardisation enabled society to progress beyond wars and civil wars into commerce and creativity.
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#19I expected this to be dystopian but nevertheless was extremely relieved to to see it explicitly labeled as such towards the end. Remember that only 18 months or so ago, during the crypto hype, the legal aspect of this was actively touted as some utopic feature of blockchains.
What's the point if the conclusion has already been made by the authors? Such "discussion" with a presumed bias becomes merely a statement or an echo chamber.
You know you can disagree with a conclusion, right?
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's the point if the conclusion has already been made by the authors? Such "discussion" with a presumed bias becomes merely a statement or an echo chamber.
You know you can disagree with a conclusion, right?
Neutrality is a prerequisite for discussions. This project is not a discussion.