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there's an underlying material reason why AI is being developed in different ways in the US and in China https://dialecticaldispatches.substack.com/p/the-automation-of-the-hollow
Thanks that's actually a great article. Appreciate you sharing it.
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Clear, concise, to the point! Going to spam this again, because of course the Dialectal Dispatches article reminded me of it. https://archive.org/details/wastemakers00pack
Oh yeah that's a great read. Vance Packard really hit on something visceral because he wasn't just complaining about junk but was instead dissecting the intentional psychological and economic engineering of a throwaway culture. Framing the whole post-war American economy as a sort of runaway train where the only way to keep the wheels turning is to force people to buy things they don't need with money they don't have is a really valuable insight in my opinion.