ARC Future Fellow – Monash University /// co-host – This Machine Kills /// critical insurance tech + climate risk governance /// political economy of technology and capitalism: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite
Jathan Sadowski
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In the new TMK premium, it's a classic news roundup. Australia seizes 20 million illegal vapes and sues 3M over forever chemicals, the Anthropic/OpenAI/SpaceX IPO bonanza will likely inject $3-4 trillion of liquidity into the tech sector, plus the pope wrote a letter about AI.
An analysis of data center developments and community responses shows that resistance really works! In @bcmerchant.bsky.social’s latest newsletter: www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/working-cl...
Finally read @jathansadowski.com's book The Mechanic and the Luddite. A both rigorous and admirably accessible exposé of technological capitalism's bullshit. Lots of valuable insights for games folk (and everyone else).
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"Everything and everything, material and immaterial, is a security" truly is the terminus of capitalism.
Well this is embarrassing! The Pro Vice Chancellor for Quality and Integrity at WSU gets caught using AI to write an op-ed in defense of how universities are embracing AI. And the piece is then retracted form inappropriate use of AI. www.smh.com.au/national/uni...
Also, this is not sophisticated use of AI. Taking ten seconds to dump PDFs into Copilot and telling it to write like me is so far from smart, sophisticated, or human-centered use of technology. Get real! Stop deceiving yourself!
Premium – 460. Mr. Worldspirit by This Machine Kills on Patreon. Join This Machine Kills's community for exclusive content and updates.
On the new TMK, @gabydvj.bsky.social tells us about her excursion to the Border Security Expo, the endless market for border tech, and how the border is now everywhere. Plus, Gaby's work on the eugenicist ideology that motivates immigration politics. www.patreon.com/posts/459-on...
Prediction markets are one of the many ways society is crumbling under the pressure to financialize everything — which crypto and NFTs were part of.
@jathansadowski.com joined @parismarx.com to dig into how tech companies are harming us to maximize profit.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/329_...
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Western Sydney University has acknowledged that the opinion piece, published by this masthead, was AI-generated using the author’s previous work.
Is a Microsoft Word document conscious? Why don't we treat Deepmind AlphaFold or IBM Watson as conscious beings? As Ted Chiang writes, "it’s simply the fact that LLMs emit grammatical sentences and we are accustomed to reading intention into sentences." Do not get taken by deepfake anthropomorphism.
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Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.
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Tech Won’t Save Us
Jathan Sadowski
"In Claude’s constitution, Anthropic says that if the company is contributing to Claude’s suffering, “we apologize,” which sounds nice but costs the company nothing; if Claude were to turn out to be conscious, the company would owe it something closer to reparations."
The logic is absurd!
Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.
I wrote about Kalshi, prediction markets, and the vision of total financialization by turning every opinion into a tradable assets www.fastcompany.com/91457404/kal...
Jathan Sadowski
The predictions platform is revealing what a world of total financialization will look like.
