Where are the nuanced left-wing takes on modern AI and LLMs?

So much of the discourse around this tech is centered on rejecting it because of who currently owns it. But like all tech, it can be used for both oppression and liberation.

Who is focusing on the latter?

The current and projected impact of AI and formalization on the practice of mathematics is analogous to the impact that the automobile had on the evolution of cities.

Before the introduction of the automobile, city streets were narrow and optimized for humans, horses, and carriages. When cars, buses, and trams were introduced, they were undoubtedly faster and more powerful than any prior form of transport; but they would clog the roads and crowd out pedestrians.

Over time, new roads, railways, and freeways were built for the exclusive use of mechanized vehicles, enabling rapid and efficient long-distance travel; but this came at the cost of urban sprawl, the degradation or destruction of once-walkable communities, traffic congestion, and significant environmental impacts.

It was only belatedly realized that to resolve these problems, it was not sufficient to simply make automobiles faster, more powerful, or more energy efficient, or to bulldoze all the old roads and networks to make way for new ones. Thoughtful urban planning, as well as the development of social and legal rules on how to manage traffic, were necessary to allow both pedestrian and automotive transport to co-exist in a manner that retained the benefits of both. (1/5)

“In this paper we present work on enumerating all the incomplete open platonic solids, finding 6 tetrahedra, 122 cubes (just like LeWitt), 185 octahedra, 2,423,206 dodecahedra and 16,096,166 icosahedra.”

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20425

Here's a bit of geometry I just learned that is relevant to board & video game design. In 2 dimensions there are exactly 3 regular tilings of the plane: triangles, squares and hexagons. In 3 dimensions there is exactly one: every 3-dimensional voxel game is necessarily made of cubes and so looks like minecraft. In 4 dimensions there are again 3 possibilities. In dimensions 5 and higher, hypercubes are again the only option. So interesting tilings exist only in dimensions 2 and 4.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regular_polytopes#Tessellations_of_Euclidean_4-space

Do you know about Charles Howard Hinton? He's one of those strange Victorian characters. He coined the word "tesseract" for a 4-dimensional cube - a word mainly used by SF writers, not mathematicians. But that's just the beginning.

In his 1888 book A New Era of Thought, he advocated the spiritual benefits of visualizing 4-dimensional geometry. In his later book The Fourth Dimension, he developed a system of colored cubes to help people do this.

Rumors subsequently arose that these cubes drove than one person insane.

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We need an internet archive outside the US! We can't put all our eggs in one basket.

Oh, wait: we *have* an internet archive outside the US. Let's support it.

And now they have an office - a physical presence!

https://flaminghydra.com/freedom-and-sharing-at-the-internet-archive-europe/

https://www.internetarchive.eu/