technology will not rest until the primary survival skill required for life on earth is how well we can anticipate and respond to the mental models of extremely complex algorithms
https://twitter.com/vogon/status/1438255752129310720
I used to think of this purely in the context of economic survival, but realistically “how to not look like a road to a car” and “how to not look like a perp to a bigdog” will eventually be right up there with “stop, drop, and roll” and avoiding anvil-shaped shadows
depending on your perspective, you could say that getting along with extremely complex algorithms (in this case, humans) is already a survival skill. it is! what's scary is the alien, multicellular nature of corporations reaching into the single-cell space of embodied actors.
police are dangerous (to all, not just ""criminals"") precisely because they're an early and brutally effective attempt to imbue individuals with the power of abstract entities and the reasoning of algorithms, and conditioning them to prioritize that identity over their own.
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