Ariel Guersenzvaig
@interacciones.org
Philosopher of technology. Senior lecturer. Thinks and writes about how we shape and are shaped by things. Book: 'The Goods of Design: Professional Ethics for Designers' (Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2022). Foreigner in Barcelona. interacciones.org
Same as it ever was.
Arendt, Crises of the Republic, p.8
Arendt, Crises of the Republic, p.8
November 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Same as it ever was.
Arendt, Crises of the Republic, p.8
Arendt, Crises of the Republic, p.8
Someone had to make it, I couldn’t resist.
September 29, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Someone had to make it, I couldn’t resist.
The same guy who wrote this in his bestseller 🫣
September 27, 2025 at 9:16 PM
The same guy who wrote this in his bestseller 🫣
Los fanboys escriben dos tipos de columnas: las que describen el futuro que tendremos gracias a la IA y las que explican la IA de hoy. Unas están llenas de exageraciones, disparates y delirios religiosos. Las otras dicen lo mismo pero ambientando la historia en el futuro en vez de en el presente.
September 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Los fanboys escriben dos tipos de columnas: las que describen el futuro que tendremos gracias a la IA y las que explican la IA de hoy. Unas están llenas de exageraciones, disparates y delirios religiosos. Las otras dicen lo mismo pero ambientando la historia en el futuro en vez de en el presente.
Esto es desopilante
September 11, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Esto es desopilante
Otro posible recorrido.
September 2, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Otro posible recorrido.
A visual depiction of state-of-the-art “aligned” LLM guardrails
August 31, 2025 at 12:21 PM
A visual depiction of state-of-the-art “aligned” LLM guardrails
Go big or go home.
August 28, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Go big or go home.
El otro campeon mundial
August 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
El otro campeon mundial
Créanme si les digo que este brillante juego de palabras “AI-bus” no sale de un artículo escrito por un becario del Marca con ChatGPT sino de la última columna de un profesor de una muy conocida escuela de negocios conocido por su afición al hype.
August 16, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Créanme si les digo que este brillante juego de palabras “AI-bus” no sale de un artículo escrito por un becario del Marca con ChatGPT sino de la última columna de un profesor de una muy conocida escuela de negocios conocido por su afición al hype.
@xabibenputa.bsky.social al ver esta muestra de la ingeniería española aplicada al cumplimiento de normativas y estándares de seguridad me he acordado de ti
August 14, 2025 at 5:59 PM
@xabibenputa.bsky.social al ver esta muestra de la ingeniería española aplicada al cumplimiento de normativas y estándares de seguridad me he acordado de ti
I love the instrumentalist take (see img), but above all I love the parable about Deep Blue, especially this:
“Today’s large language models, by contrast, draw on their vast database of past chess games to predict which move feels right [WTF!].” Databases!! Here doesn’t even get the basics right!
“Today’s large language models, by contrast, draw on their vast database of past chess games to predict which move feels right [WTF!].” Databases!! Here doesn’t even get the basics right!
August 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I love the instrumentalist take (see img), but above all I love the parable about Deep Blue, especially this:
“Today’s large language models, by contrast, draw on their vast database of past chess games to predict which move feels right [WTF!].” Databases!! Here doesn’t even get the basics right!
“Today’s large language models, by contrast, draw on their vast database of past chess games to predict which move feels right [WTF!].” Databases!! Here doesn’t even get the basics right!
I knew this guy wasn’t worth reading, but lol, this is beyond stupid
August 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I knew this guy wasn’t worth reading, but lol, this is beyond stupid
David F. Noble wrote in the early ’80s about the compulsions and enthusiasm in the managerial class that drove the adoption of automation technology in previous decades, but it also perfectly describes today’s GenAI FOMO as well.
(Progress without people, 1995,, p. 95.)
(Progress without people, 1995,, p. 95.)
![In addition to the concerns of individual managers there is a collective phenomenon at work as well, a sort of herd instinct, in which they all get caught up together. It's something like a run on a bank or the stock market. Someone starts it and before long everyone is doing it out of desperation. Managers feel they must automate because
"everyone's doing it," out of fear that they will be undone by more up-to-date competitors (a paranoia encouraged by equipment ven-dors). There is this vague belief that the drive to automate is inevita-ble, unavoidable, and this belief becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy. In the stampede, meanwhile, there is very little sober analysis of costs and benefits. "Everybody and his brother believes that FMS [flexible manufacturing systems] is the only way to fly," the trade magazine Iron Age reported. "Yet, there isn't a single FMS in the U.S. that operates the way it was intended to." One Boston University business school professor told the Wall Street Journal, "Companies are buying equipment helter skelter without thinking about how they want to use it.'26 In short, this trance that we are all in— the feeling that there is some inevitable force called technological progress and you have to hop on or get run over — they're in it too.
This ideology, as we now see, begs all of the questions and avoids all of the answers about the reality of technological progress. Leaving aside the human and social dimension, the actual political, cultural, and psychological factors at work, the ideology allows for no serious scrutiny of actual motivations and real returns. Insofar as it does this, it serves a purpose— to camouflage, obscure, dignify, and ratify the actions of those in power.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bhpt5umnxm4q7r7aympw72zl/bafkreidzlccpfhe5eq5ofxzqe4wyi5lchfogtfowj3gpa4flr3f7jeufge@jpeg)
July 26, 2025 at 7:33 AM
David F. Noble wrote in the early ’80s about the compulsions and enthusiasm in the managerial class that drove the adoption of automation technology in previous decades, but it also perfectly describes today’s GenAI FOMO as well.
(Progress without people, 1995,, p. 95.)
(Progress without people, 1995,, p. 95.)
@emilymbender.bsky.social ICYM Introducing the OECD AI Capability Indicators 🪄 www.oecd.org/content/dam/...
July 19, 2025 at 9:08 AM
@emilymbender.bsky.social ICYM Introducing the OECD AI Capability Indicators 🪄 www.oecd.org/content/dam/...
June 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Gracias @beteve.cat por dar voz y legitimar a la ultraderecha catalana en horario de máxima audiencia.
May 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Gracias @beteve.cat por dar voz y legitimar a la ultraderecha catalana en horario de máxima audiencia.
The debut album from up-and-coming British-American ambient electronic duo Slop just dropped.
May 22, 2025 at 7:14 AM
The debut album from up-and-coming British-American ambient electronic duo Slop just dropped.
Is that a road cycling thing? I never felt that camaraderie in four decades as a urban cyclist, except when arguing with a car driver 😂 They talk about this in “The thick of it”
May 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Is that a road cycling thing? I never felt that camaraderie in four decades as a urban cyclist, except when arguing with a car driver 😂 They talk about this in “The thick of it”