I really thought Graeber & Wengrow's 'The Dawn of Everything' had some really fascinating history in that regard, too

Fun & weird fact: Schloss Dagstuhl, which today houses the Leipniz Center for Computer Science, features the von der Leyen crest 🤷

This is great, thanks for writing it!

We recently published a book about AI and capitalism, where we explore a lot of similar issues, might be interesting to you:

www.commonnotions.org/why-we-fear-ai

I'd recommend chapters 1 & 2 of our book, but you already know about that ;)

True, but also worth asking why this mystification in particular works so well (obviously, language is a starting point, but there's a lot to that question)

I don't think anything that comes out of my printer could take getting hit with a hammer, tbh

Keepass and KeepassXC aren't the same software

But also, isn't trusting the review & test procedures of these developers always at the heart of an open source project? Is the difference a matter of scale? Principles? Vibes?

Alas this one's also fake 😅

Oh, also, our book proposal had a chapter called "Seizing the Means of Prediction" in it, too! Somehow it didn't make it into the final version though :)

Imho this is related to the shortcomings of the "hype" frame of AI critique:

"Calling AI hype may be like thinking the fascists are simply stupid [...] But the fascists are confused neither about the nature of free speech, nor the nature of the “speech” that is produced by an LLM."

too late

Yes, many religions have constraints on using the name of god(s), and I suppose some people take that to include constraints on how to write it. I've gotten the impression that this particular one is mostly used among certain varieties of Judaism, but I wouldn't know anything about the details tbh