No, Charles Babbage Was Not Optimising Slavery

Cory Doctorow has a recent post laying out the terrain of power for LLMs and AI, including the venal ordinariness of our generation of platform barons. The post is actually pretty good, pulling people away from the hysterical online consensus that LLM based AI is a radical break from all other technological change, either for Continue reading No, Charles Babbage Was Not Optimising Slavery