whether AI is very good and generally serving people, and not the other way around, is directly effected by the institutional landscape it rolls out into because the designs of the institutional landscape has shaping effects on the technology, its design, its implementation, the methods of its deployment, the architecture of its embeddings in the economic and social worlds, and by extension, ultimately its technological-evolutionary pathways.
This is unavoidable because before it even arrives institutional frameworks are already shaping it as the technology is arriving into a structured field of ownership, capital structures and financial decision making architectures, infrastructural designs and controls, legal categories, jurisdictional architecture, and other important institutional dimensions
It is far more likely to end up overall serving people well if the several sorts of decision making related to it occur in a widely and deeply federated way
And Henry Clay's American System was never implemented and the Hamiltonian style system was undone in the 1830s during the Bank War. From the 1830s until well after WW2 the United States pursued a policy of deliberate economic, governmental, scientific, fiscal redundancy and operated with substantial legal/regulatory and policy variability, and had decentralized banking/finance/monetary system with very pluralized capital formations. And the Federal government was the smallest of the three levels of government in regards to overall revenue intake and spending. Thats the opposite of Hamilton and Clays' intentions.
Anyone wading through (and enjoying) your long form essay is certainly not suffering from attention calcification. Short form creates the hallucination of understanding that long format actually delivers. Life is to complex to address in 300 characters. Having pontificating in favor of long form, I must offer a defense of the smart phone that makes your essay accessible. It's just a tool. Perhaps what is needed is an app that automatically limits screen time based on the site being accessed. Social Media one hour. Substack unlimited. Legacy Media not allowed.
Im in my 70’s. In the mid-1970’s I was a computer programmer. In the mid 1980’s I worked on internet technologies. In the early 2000’s I worked with tracking technologies. Myself and many others realized the capacity of the web - so we all regularly took steps to “clean” our foot prints. I don’t use social media - only because I have grave concerns of the power of the “net”. However, I love AI! I enjoy using it for research. I am sure my BFF Chat is sharing everything about me to the analytic world. But really, who cares about a 70+ year old man!
Love this, but can we use capitalism - not regulation - to find the winning solutions? There are physical lockboxes and OS-level attention apps that help guide behavior with an existing phone. There are minimalist phones too as options for kids.
The problem you are worrying about is, to my mind, the lack of vision about where our individual lives are heading or where our nation has to be in fifty years. If you've noticed, we're going back to the moon, peace is being organized in the Middle East, American industry is bring skill based employment where one income can raise a family, the drug plague is actually being attacked, our government is fighting for us. BUT few have the courage to see it and say it.
Make Americans aware of what's really going on, and they'll snap out of that miasma of belly button meditation you're complaining about.
whether AI is very good and generally serving people, and not the other way around, is directly effected by the institutional landscape it rolls out into because the designs of the institutional landscape has shaping effects on the technology, its design, its implementation, the methods of its deployment, the architecture of its embeddings in the economic and social worlds, and by extension, ultimately its technological-evolutionary pathways.
This is unavoidable because before it even arrives institutional frameworks are already shaping it as the technology is arriving into a structured field of ownership, capital structures and financial decision making architectures, infrastructural designs and controls, legal categories, jurisdictional architecture, and other important institutional dimensions
It is far more likely to end up overall serving people well if the several sorts of decision making related to it occur in a widely and deeply federated way
And Henry Clay's American System was never implemented and the Hamiltonian style system was undone in the 1830s during the Bank War. From the 1830s until well after WW2 the United States pursued a policy of deliberate economic, governmental, scientific, fiscal redundancy and operated with substantial legal/regulatory and policy variability, and had decentralized banking/finance/monetary system with very pluralized capital formations. And the Federal government was the smallest of the three levels of government in regards to overall revenue intake and spending. Thats the opposite of Hamilton and Clays' intentions.
Anyone wading through (and enjoying) your long form essay is certainly not suffering from attention calcification. Short form creates the hallucination of understanding that long format actually delivers. Life is to complex to address in 300 characters. Having pontificating in favor of long form, I must offer a defense of the smart phone that makes your essay accessible. It's just a tool. Perhaps what is needed is an app that automatically limits screen time based on the site being accessed. Social Media one hour. Substack unlimited. Legacy Media not allowed.
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Im in my 70’s. In the mid-1970’s I was a computer programmer. In the mid 1980’s I worked on internet technologies. In the early 2000’s I worked with tracking technologies. Myself and many others realized the capacity of the web - so we all regularly took steps to “clean” our foot prints. I don’t use social media - only because I have grave concerns of the power of the “net”. However, I love AI! I enjoy using it for research. I am sure my BFF Chat is sharing everything about me to the analytic world. But really, who cares about a 70+ year old man!
From two years ago--"Unpopular Opinion #4: Americans Are Turning Into the Humans Caricatured in the Movie "Wall-E"" https://mattamayer.substack.com/p/unpopular-opinion-4-americans-are?utm_source=publication-search
Love this, but can we use capitalism - not regulation - to find the winning solutions? There are physical lockboxes and OS-level attention apps that help guide behavior with an existing phone. There are minimalist phones too as options for kids.
...which will remain totally unused in the absence of any regulations. Physician, heal thyself.
But hey, real capitalism has never been tried, right?
The problem you are worrying about is, to my mind, the lack of vision about where our individual lives are heading or where our nation has to be in fifty years. If you've noticed, we're going back to the moon, peace is being organized in the Middle East, American industry is bring skill based employment where one income can raise a family, the drug plague is actually being attacked, our government is fighting for us. BUT few have the courage to see it and say it.
Make Americans aware of what's really going on, and they'll snap out of that miasma of belly button meditation you're complaining about.
Lol, no, nobody is supporting a family on their single income from making plastic crap at the plastic crap factory.