Science is inherently political. This is not meant in anyway to degrade science, but reveals a most desperate need to reform politics by incorporating science into politics, while simultaneously developing an understanding of the politics of science. The other day some of our Tech Priests were evangelizing a “God-AI.” Lord, which fucking one? If it's Quetzalcoatl God-AI, these United States got an ass-whooping coming, something to think about my fellow Americans.
I really wonder about the people Google etc. pass off as scientists. They are technologists I suppose. I found Shoshana Zuboff's "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" a truly eye-opening read...It is not reassuring how much influence Google/Zuckerberg/Microsoft/Apple etc. increasingly have over science and medicine..It makes me wonder when I see stuff like this:
Great post as usual Joe. I am rereading all your older posts.
As for the God-AI as expected it is an ex-Googler-the moron behind that:
https://www.dezeen.com/2017/10/11/anthony-levandowski-engineer-religion-artificial-intelligence-ai-god-way-of-the-future/#
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Levandowski
I really wonder about the people Google etc. pass off as scientists. They are technologists I suppose. I found Shoshana Zuboff's "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" a truly eye-opening read...It is not reassuring how much influence Google/Zuckerberg/Microsoft/Apple etc. increasingly have over science and medicine..It makes me wonder when I see stuff like this:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-08/google-ex-ceo-eric-schmidt-influences-ai-policy-with-27-billion-fortune#xj4y7vzkg
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/16/eric-schmidt-plans-to-give-ai-researchers-125-million-.html