Emma Stamm on Nostr: Wish I could attend this talk! It's free & online next week. "Drawing from theories ...
Wish I could attend this talk! It's free & online next week.
"Drawing from theories of ritual and experiment, I examine the demonstrative, belief-building work that prediction does - from 18th century automata to Amazon warehouses, from Marvin Minsky to the Year 10,000. What we call 'tech' today serves as a legitimising function for capital, and crucial to this function is the active foreclosure of any political future other than more of the same."
https://events.humanitix.com/predictions-without-futures
#philosophy #AI
"Drawing from theories of ritual and experiment, I examine the demonstrative, belief-building work that prediction does - from 18th century automata to Amazon warehouses, from Marvin Minsky to the Year 10,000. What we call 'tech' today serves as a legitimising function for capital, and crucial to this function is the active foreclosure of any political future other than more of the same."
https://events.humanitix.com/predictions-without-futures
#philosophy #AI