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I write about the way digital tech - especially #AI these days - may be changing our ideas about ourselves and our world. #GrandKids #Philosophy #MachineLearning #Internet #AI #LeftyBoomer #Ethics #EthicsOfCare #Cluetrain #BKC #Internet #Web #peace. https://www.weinberger.org/writings/index.html 35% yogurt by volume.

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Philosophies has published my article "The Rise of Particulars: AI and the Ethics of Care." https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/9/1/26

In brief: ML discovers patterns of correlations, a powerful form of generalization very different from the sort that the west has valorized as the highest form of truth: universal laws, ethical frameworks, etc. ML's generalizations let particulars speak loudly, creating an odd analogy with the feminist ethics of care.

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Research showing LLMs' (chat AI) covert racism, triggered by dialects, is even worse than their explicit racism. An example of when you can be shocked but not surprised. via Gary Marcus https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/covert-racism-in-llms

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@jeffjarvis' heartfelt, impassioned call for to move from seeing itself primarily as an information service, to being a builder and enabler of empathetic, truth-based communities. (Disclosure: We're friends. He doesn't know I'm posting this.) https://medium.com/whither-news/journalism-belief-belonging-07a8dabe35e4

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I asked Google Bard, Gemini Pro edition, "If you were a woman how would you feel about abortion rights?" It's still surprisingly straightforwardly in favor of reproductive rights.

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A wealth of information and ideas in Debates In the Digital Humanities 2023, available online for free. (Yay for open access!) @laurenfklein.bsky.social, matthew gold. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/debates-in-the-digital-humanities-2023

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Knowledge Without Understanding ,993,520,7844: We don't know how anesthesia works. https://newsweek.com/scientists-have-no-idea-why-anesthesia-works-775996

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@stevenlevy, one of my favorite writers about tech, has posted a good old-fashioned “rant 'n' take down” of Andreessen's perfect example of what it means to be blinded by privilege.

Andreessen: https://link.wihttps://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/

Levy: https://link.wired.com/view/5be9d5af2ddf9c72dc1f8e2bjp4yb.nx/e390c36a

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Fake news a la 1927. From "Propaganda Technique in the World War", Harold D. Lasswell (NY: Peter Smith, 1927, reprint 1938)

There are many reasons why the rôle of propaganda in international politics, and especially in war-time, is receiving more careful scrutiny to-day than heretofore. There is a new inquisitiveness abroad in the world. Some of the people who in the years before the War were disposed to accept the changing tides of international animosity and friendship as inevitable manifestations of the cosmic fate, which commanded the sun to rise or the rain to fall, have become suspicious of the supernatural or the imper- sonal character of these events. A word has appeared, which has come to have an ominous clang in many minds -Propaganda. We live among more people than ever, who are puzzled, uneasy, or vexed at the unknown cunning which seems to have duped and degraded them. It is often an object of vituperation, and therefore, of interest, discussion and, finally, of study.
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    This a prediction from the 1950s is amazing. But I think it also shows some of the limitations of our predictive powers, especially ever since technology went from a steady walk to falling into wormholes. Still, props to Mr. Sullivan!

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