Asst Prof of Digital Humanities @camdighum.bsky.social. Florida man abroad, lapsed Catholic, vulgar marxist; Stanford English phd, Literary Lab alum. I work on computational humanities, AI, and forms of abstraction in (C18) literary history. ryanheuser.com
Ryan Heuser
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More AI+Lyotard. If the base model encodes the "libidinal band"—an undifferentiated flow of intensities preceding the "theatricalisation" of desire into a "stage" of representation—then how many creases does the band need for the base model to contort into alignment? Depends on the alignment regime.
Notes on experiment/methods/data are here: github.com/quadrismegis...
For the Accelerationism conference I'm connecting Lacan to Lyotard/Deleuze/Land. Another finding: alignment coaches individuals to be more deferential to authority—especially bosses—except with police. Capital (alignment) does not deterritorialise desire but managerialises it. "Strike" → "consider".
📣 Announcing the release of the 🕊️ Annotated Encyclical 🕊️ from the ethics & society folks at @hf.co. Includes citations to relevant academic work.
Very much a WIP. Please add work we haven't added yet!
huggingface.co/spaces/socie...
Apparently this is causing a stir on bluesky, but you know what they say in analysis, visceral rejection is a sign of resistance to something repressed.
Looking back: for all their exuberances I enjoy that Ong, McLuhan, Kittler, etc are oriented to discontinuity in media history. Other, more sober historicisms are great too but they can tend toward "there is nothing new under the sun". Obviously something is very new in AI; we need to know what/how.
Yes it's also part of the long history of labor automation and the Macy conferences and cybernetics and a thousand other historical vectors, but that doesn't mean that, now, today, "AI" doesn't exert itself as a highly discontinuous cultural formation—it clearly does, that's what makes it important.
No, he only dealt arms for genocide.
I can't stand this bluesky libslop. what is this, facebook?
