Insider's ethnography of talking financialization media.

"Analysts and media figures understand financial talk as requiring a skill set distinct from conducting research or representing facts."

(Publisher description for Alex Preda, The Spectacle of Expertise, 2023)

#SkillsMismatch #NonComplementarySkills #DecoupledSkills #IncompatibleSkills #SkillsBifurcation #Deskill #Deskilling #Deskilled #Econonomics #Econ #EconPolicy

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-spectacle-of-expertise/9780231202473/

So the autodeskilled software engineer can't remember how to finish this class, and he says to himself, "I know! I'll use AI."

Now he has two problems, plus a month-end bill the size of a 2-bedroom house.

(with apologies to @jwz)

#AI #LLM #deskill #deskilling #autodeskill #autodeskilling #software #engineer #StochasticParrot #jwz

»#AI is Dehumanization Technology«

An important summary of the reasons why "AI" is to be avoided, reasoning about how

»AI systems reproduce #bias, cheapen and homogenize our social interactions, #deskill us, make our jobs more precarious, eliminate opportunities to practice care, and enable authoritarian modes of #surveillance and control.«

[via @asrg ]

https://thedabbler.patatas.ca/pages/ai-is-dehumanization-technology.html

#techbros #ai #wrongwithconfidence:

"#chatgpt's smooth answers are sometimes correct. ha! take that, #luddites.*"

(*unspoken subtext: hail the age of machine supremacy, we're all obsolete now)

sure, but that's neither here nor there?

a broken clock is correct twice a day. does it know when?

granted, this may outperform a broken clock;

but go ahead, #agi believers, #deskill yourselves ... 🤷

meanwhile, the one one's cheating most by not doing one's homework oneself is still ... oneself.