Venkatesh Rao / Contraptions:

Modern AI panic reflects “cognitive mercantilism”, a zero-sum worldview where intelligence is hoarded as a scarce supply-side commodity managed by elites  —  AI panic weirdly resembles the anxiety that accompanied early capitalism  —  I've been reading Joyce Appleby's The Relentless Revolution …

Venkatesh Rao / Contraptions:

Modern AI panic reflects “cognitive mercantilism”, a zero-sum worldview where intelligence is hoarded as a scarce supply-side commodity managed by elites  —  AI panic weirdly resembles the anxiety that accompanied early capitalism  —  I've been reading Joyce Appleby's The Relentless Revolution …

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