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Alberto Cottica<p>Exactly that:</p><p>"While promising, progressive blockchain networks are largely still ‘thought experiments’ while the most powerful, successful ones are ‘extractive’ ."</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2024.2389284" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2024.</span><span class="invisible">2389284</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/blockchain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blockchain</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/solutionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solutionism</span></a></p>
Degrowth or Extinction<p><a href="https://jorts.horse/tags/solutionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solutionism</span></a> ? <a href="https://jorts.horse/tags/climateChaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climateChaos</span></a> ?</p>
Brandon Keim<p>Confronted with the problem of potentially apocalyptic flu strains being created by the hellish, disease-amplifying practices of factory chicken farming, agricultural science steps up and …</p><p>… tweaks the chickens a bit.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scicomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scicomm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/solutionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solutionism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biotechnology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biotechnology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pandemic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pandemic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>food</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/farming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>farming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/influenza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>influenza</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/apocalypse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apocalypse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bettertodiethanstopeatingcheapmeat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bettertodiethanstopeatingcheapmeat</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/10/science/bird-flu-chickens-crispr.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2023/10/10/science</span><span class="invisible">/bird-flu-chickens-crispr.html</span></a></p>
Degrowth or Extinction<p><a href="https://jorts.horse/tags/VerticalFarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VerticalFarming</span></a> Does not Save Space</p><p>"If the <a href="https://jorts.horse/tags/electricity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>electricity</span></a> for a vertical farm is supplied by solar panels, the energy production takes up at least as much space as the vertical farm saves. "</p><p>the only <a href="https://jorts.horse/tags/solutionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solutionism</span></a> that exists.. is to <a href="https://jorts.horse/tags/sinkTheRich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sinkTheRich</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/02/vertical-farming-does-not-save-space/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2021</span><span class="invisible">/02/vertical-farming-does-not-save-space/</span></a></p>
Jon Udell<p>"I called this solutionism, but “digital neoliberalism” would be just as fitting. This worldview reframes social problems in light of for-profit technological solutions. As a result, concerns that belong in the public domain are reimagined as entrepreneurial opportunities in the marketplace."</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/opinion/artificial-intelligence-danger.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2023/06/30/opinion</span><span class="invisible">/artificial-intelligence-danger.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/agi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>agi</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/solutionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solutionism</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>society</span></a></p>
Karsten Schmidt<p>Having seen James C. Scott's seminal "Seeing like a State" getting referenced several times this past week, I'm now going through some of my old bookmarks related to the book. It struck me how well the below recipe also summarizes Silicon Valley's attitude &amp; culture of naive <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/solutionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solutionism</span></a> </p><p>"Here's the recipe:</p><p>1. Look at a complex and confusing reality, such as the social dynamics of an old city<br>2. Fail to understand all the subtleties of how the complex reality works<br>3. Attribute that failure to the irrationality of what you are looking at, rather than your own limitations<br>4. Come up with an idealized blank-slate vision of what that reality ought to look like<br>5. Argue that the relative simplicity and platonic orderliness of the vision represents rationality<br>6. Use authoritarian power to impose that vision, by demolishing the old reality if necessary<br>7. Watch your rational Utopia fail horribly"</p><p><a href="https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-big-little-idea-called-legibility/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-bi</span><span class="invisible">g-little-idea-called-legibility/</span></a></p><p>Also (somewhat conflating other aspects in here), the evolution of the SV-owned Social Web of the past 18 years seems currently somewhere between steps 6 and 7, for better or worse...</p>
Degrowth or Extinction<p><a href="https://jorts.horse/tags/solutionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solutionism</span></a> <a href="https://jorts.horse/tags/degrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>degrowth</span></a> <a href="https://jorts.horse/tags/enjoy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enjoy</span></a></p>
Ben Caudron<p>Scott Aaronson says (<a href="https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6823" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">scottaaronson.blog/?p=6823</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAI</span></a> is 'working on a system for countering <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cheating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cheating</span></a> by…subtly tweaking the specific choice of words...in a way that wouldn’t be noticeable to a reader, but would be statistically predictable to anyone looking for signs of machine-generated text.’</p><p>Curious to learn if<br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>timnitGebru</span></a></span> or <span class="h-card"><a href="https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>emilymbender</span></a></span> appreciate Aaronson’s description of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ethical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ethical</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a>. <br>I pretty much dislike the talk: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Solutionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Solutionism</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Utopism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Utopism</span></a> Galore</p><p>source:<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/31/ai-assisted-plagiarism-chatgpt-bot-says-it-has-an-answer-for-that" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/technology/202</span><span class="invisible">2/dec/31/ai-assisted-plagiarism-chatgpt-bot-says-it-has-an-answer-for-that</span></a></p>
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