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I'm reading "This Changes Everything" by Naomi Klein. The central tenet is that captialism works against our efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change. It feels remarkably applicable to current AI-ffairs.

Andrew Stacey

@mathforge.org

15 Sept

Namely, that genAI is doing to us what climate change is doing to the world, and while it might be possible to figure out a new normal in which we can still have a reasonable existence, the presence of "big business" in the mix makes that nigh on impossible.

Andrew Stacey

@mathforge.org

So the first step in figuring out the new normal is to say to those companies, "Thanks, but no thanks. Let *us* figure out what we want and then we'll get back to you. You might have a role in it, but if so it'll be on our terms, not yours."

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Andrew Stacey

@mathforge.org

15 Sept

Within mathematics (and the above applies not just to mathematics) then I can't say I'm too hopeful that we'll do that. After all, we've known about Reed Elsevier for decades now and we haven't managed to say it to them.

Andrew Stacey

@mathforge.org

15 Sept

And all the issues that we couldn't figure out with publishing will rear their ugly heads here, and so many of them are to do with privilege and which voices get heard. But maybe this time we'll get it right. Maybe.