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@navneetalang.com Not my thinking of course. All the cognition I do – what I want for dinner that’s satisfying but healthy, what running shoes won’t hurt my knees, which sheets to buy, how to pay less for auto insurance, what to invest in – is a pure expression of human agency that I find fulfilling and gratifying.

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@explodingpiano.bsky.social irl lol

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@navneetalang.com wasn’t I just railing against racism a few minutes ago? what can I say, I contain multitudes

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@navneetalang.com I knew it!

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@navneetalang.com Lol

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@navneetalang.com np at all. grad school hangover perhaps, but i do wonder about the possibility of something being non-ideological (though I can understand how economics or technical concerns might be more prominent or influential in a given moment, decision etc.)

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@navneetalang.com Ah ok. My initial post was more about some of the audience for these companies’ technologies, rather than the ideology of those creating them

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@navneetalang.com How are we defining ideological here?

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@navneetalang.com This is super interesting. Not sure I’ve ever heard this argument before

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@navneetalang.com oh but i didn’t mean to assert that bots/AI etc. are above the constraints of subjectivity. i was talking about the desire for such

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@navneetalang.com ah, i think the confusion is that I meant desire here as the un- or preconscious wish for something rather than the question “why would I want a chatbot?” that asks about its utility. the question already presupposes that people want it for obvious reasons.

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@navneetalang.com oh god, yes, i do

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@navneetalang.com I don’t remember that part! But I do remember how bananas they were – just a pastiche of ideas and images and noise rammed together. I loved them!

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@navneetalang.com don’t really think that answers the question that was posed

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@navneetalang.com That’s interesting. People have already pointed to a perceived risk re how one speaks to chatbots bleeding into how one speaks to people (or more darkly, that the chatbot itself desire for a subhuman servant)

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@navneetalang.com I like that

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@navneetalang.com yeah, that’s interesting! I think there’s definitely something to it

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@navneetalang.com yeah, I think the idea of the automated person is a real thing. i do wonder why consciousness seems to be such a thing though

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@navneetalang.com oof that’s depressing (but I think there’s something to it!)

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@navneetalang.com The latter seems more obvious to me, in that it feels like it’s possible it’s “AI as God” – the transcendental voice that sits above the constraints of subjectivity etc. But this desire that machines are secretly conscious feels more confusing to me.

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@navneetalang.com yeah, that’s a good example imo

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@navneetalang.com (Flip side of this = for a whole bunch of reasons, humans were already squeezed into bot-like roles or bot-like scripts. Think of the “threatening to cancel” theatre in order to get a discount on a subscription, or getting auto insurance, or CSRs whose sole role is to triage system mistakes etc.)

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@ivortossell.bsky.social Ah ok, got it

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@navneetalang.com Oh yeah, that was what I was implying

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@navneetalang.com I’m not surprised. Things have gone a bit nuts

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Listening to Oscar Peterson on vinyl: navneetalang.com

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The Trouble with David Schwartz: navneetalang.com

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Transportation is about bodies \"\" : navneetalang.com

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A (sort of) optimistic case for AI: navneetalang.com

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Thoughts on living through an inflection point: navneetalang.com

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Trees and Champagne: navneetalang.com

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Idle thought: some BIPOC ppl, esp 2nd gen etc, want the kind of representation of Bridgerton to satisfy a fantasy of inclusion in the dominant culture in which they live. The alternatives are narratives in different cultures, in different languages and that’s not what they want.

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“When the Hindu Right Came for Bollywood” www.newyorker.com/magazine/…

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Test

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Just testing something

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Does Toronto Need a Restaurant Critic? navneetalang.com

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Punch Magazine leans into the Martini hype (or re-hype? or?) with a comprehensive roundup. punchdrink.com/articles/…

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About the Martini : navneetalang.com

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On the Pleasures of Not Reading: navneetalang.com

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Media as Metonym: On E3, Auto Shows, and White Supremacist YouTube: navneetalang.com

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Stick with this ‘til the end even if you find parts of it to be too much hazlitt.net/longreads…

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Well that seems optimistic

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I’ve reluctantly spent a lot of time in malls recently. I forgot about that unease you feel while in one: all of us slowly plodding along, desperate to cobble together our own individuality from the sameness.

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Watched S1 of White Lotus. There was a message in there somewhere… but whatever it was, it was extremely subtle.

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To be Principled You Have to Avoid Pleasure : navneetalang.com

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I am these days a bit obsessed with things. Stuff. Objects.\nI am typing this little note on a new mechanical keyboard that I’m not sure I had any real need for. I upgraded my iPad despite my older one already being far more than I needed. I keep spending money that, if I were more pract... navalang.micro.blog: navalang.micro.blog

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When will there be a backlash to “immersion”? : navalang.micro.blog

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Listened to more of CBC Ideas’s series “The Shock of the New” and it’s great. It’s about “hinge years” – 1600, 1789, 1833, 1913, 1947 – admittedly arbitrary moments in global history that act at least as symbols for radical or deep change.\nIt’s satisfyingly meaty, erudite, and features ... navalang.micro.blog: navalang.micro.blog

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