At the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington, D.C., attendees talked less about jobs and policy, and more about their philosophy of life.
How a fringe AI movement convinced Washington the end is near
Activists spent years cultivating allies on Capitol Hill. Now lawmakers in both major parties are discussing human extinction.
Humanism without (All) Humans
Microsoft Humanism puts corporate muscle behind an overweening class of bad AI philosophies
Reflections on Anthropic and EA
Personal reflections I've been sitting on lately.
Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, …
James Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a s…
Charlie Kirk, Ezra Klein, and the Cost of Civility-Theater Liberalism
“Talking across divides” is laudable—until it becomes a license to launder antidemocratic and dehumanizing ideas.
Anti-Intellectualism | The Paper Pilot
The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology
Leftism | The Paper Pilot
The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology
The Inner Life of Liberalism - Aaron Ross Powell’s Blog
The practices that make your life better are the same ones that sustain a free society. It's time liberalism took that seriously.
When Silicon Valley’s AI warriors came to Washington
Effective altruism is increasingly described as a cult. But as the movement’s billionaire adherents pour money into D.C., its obsession with the AI apocalypse is remaking the capital’s tech policy landscape.
Hyperpolitics? Yes, Please • Protean Magazine
Alex Colston reviews Anton Jäger's "Hyperpolitics," filling in gaps in the book's short argument and arguing for the importance of political formations and activities independent of official political society.
Why this philosopher turned down Anthropic
The AI industry is courting the humanities — but it is asking the wrong questions
Why this philosopher turned down Anthropic
The AI industry is courting the humanities — but it is asking the wrong questions
Anarchy and modern convenience
A major part of anarchy and socialism is the concept of anti-work. An obsession with work is a colonial, patriarchal, and capitalist construct. As such, the anti-work movement—a focus on working less overall and sharing labor more equally—is an important part of decolonization, feminism, and anti-capitalism. A common criticism of this is that reducing the amount everyone works to something like 20 hours a week instead of 40+ means we would have to give up a lot of conveniences.
Prejudice on the Left | The Paper Pilot
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AI* anthropomorphism
* I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me
AI* and labor/replacing humans
* I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me
Opinion | A.I. Companies Say They Aren’t Responsible for Their Unpredictable Products. Don’t Believe Them.
Anthropic bans ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ toward Claude
*extremely tired voice*AI agents don't "go rogue". They are not sentient; they don't have agency. They work within guardrails set by humans…
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
Assigning agency to AI means surrendering your own
論説：AIの「意識」論争は何を隠しているか
Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back
Seattle Times Journalists Picket Newsroom Over Low Pay and Threats of Being Replaced by AI
翻訳業が苦境、利益は3年で7割減 ～ AIと競合で破産したケースも ～ | TSRデータインサイト | 東京商工リサーチ
The Rise of Industrial AI in America: Microfoundations of the Productivity J-curve(s)
The ‘productivity paradox’ of AI adoption in manufacturing firms | MIT Sloan
Human + AI in Accounting: Early Evidence from the Field