Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period.Aug 11, 2025Pluralistic: Goodhart's Law (of AI) (11 Aug 2025)
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/11/five-paragraph-essay/
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period.Apr 14, 2025Pluralistic: Machina economicus (14 Apr 2025)
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/14/timmy-share/
#FF2024 ended with a literal bang in the form of Triptych, EDM+AV Mechanical Synaesthesia, by Robin Fox. It was loud, intense, immersive, and what could only be described as an unforgettable "trip" 🔥🔥🤩💫💥. Nothing I've ever experienced before. A reimagining. In many ways, that was one of the main threads at #FF2024 - deliberate and cautious approach, ask questions, be more conscientious, do #SlowAI if possible. Certainly a reimagining of how AI projects have been done post-Kraken 🐙 👹🧌.
Kirsten: On #SlowAI and "Just chill". Cultural understanding of time and space and slowing down. Fear of inertia.
Lauren: Yarning as methodology. "Isn't this just a focus group?" Yes, it does sound like it. But it's much much more. It encapsulates relationality btw research participant and researchers, conflict of interest. Recognising of prior relationship. Adds another layer or accountability. It needs to be Indigenous-led, can't just tack something on.
James Smithies & Karaitiana Taiuru – Large Language Models and Transnational Research: Introducing the AI as Infrastructure (AIINFRA) Project.
Goal to have an evaluation framework for AI as a research tool. #SlowAI. Incorporate indigenous knowledge protocols. Sources: Hansard 1901 from UK, Aus and NZ.
Aotearoa - Data sovereignty principles created by elders and community, not by academics.
Abstract at https://sites.google.com/view/ai4lam/news/fantastic-futures-2024-papers#h.ytx09syhqiuq #AIINFRA #AI4LAM #FF2024
Another person who has been contributing to the #SlowAI meme is of course @pluralistic :
locusmag.com/2015/07/cory-doct…
In addition to Stross, Doctorow credits Ted Chiang:
CEOs know that they don't actually run their companies, and it haunts them, because while they can decompose a company into all its constituent elements - capital, labor, procedures - they can't get this model-train set to go around the loop:
Stross calls corporations #SlowAI, a pernicious artificial life-form that acts like a pedantic genie, always on the hunt for ways to destroy you while still strictly following your directions.
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As has been the case since the time of the Luddites, the issue isn't what the machine does, it's who it does it *for* and who it does it *to*.
After all, as @cstross points out, a corporation is just a #SlowAI, remorselessly paperclip-maximizing its way through the lives and joy of the flesh-and-blood people who constitute its inconvenient gut-flora:
https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9270-dude_you_broke_the_future#video&t=3478
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