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(9/9) I tried to write out what reading Mir did to my thinking – the counters, the counters to the counters, where I kept landing – in "Reading Mir on the Acceleration." You can read the full thing here: x.com/AI_MickyJ/stat…

(8/9) The counters don't break Mir's argument. They are the argument, seen from close up. Zoom out far enough and an exponential curve flattens into a line. Each counter – the materials, the labor, the institutions – is a bump in that line. The pressmen. The flash crash. The F-16 pilot riding a plane he doesn't understand, going where the computer decided. Up close they look like refutations. From far enough out they are just the slope.

Andrey Mir published this essay in February. I have been chewing on it ever since. Every time I work my way to an exit, I end up back where he started. I don't know what you call that except: that's when you know an idea has got to you 🧵 (1/9)

"Just as the alphabet emancipated writing from the pictorial semblance of physical reality, artificial intelligence emancipates intelligence from the constraints of its biological carrier—humans."

@Andrey4Mir The thirst for response has been quenched

Look what arrived 👀 Looking forward to reading this If you're not familiar with @Andrey4Mir then check out his blog at andreymir.com or just pick up one of his books. Highly recommended.

You don't know what you want until you've tried to say it badly several times. Silicon Valley's entire roadmap assumes the opposite. That assumption will hollow out knowledge work from the inside. Here's the argument. 🧵 (1/19)

@deedydas Similarly related, but through a media ecology lens: x.com/AI_MickyJ/stat…

Read Kyle Kingsbury’s 32 page critique of AI: “The Future of Everything is Lies.” It is a polemic, cynical and disagreeable piece to many in tech, but felt by most outside of it. It highlights the many problems we will need to solve as AI percolates through society. Must read.