Yes, journalism as a craft is worth defending but Journalism as defined by Columbia J School and fellow travellers produces the toadies for imperialism populating CNN, NYT and other suburbs of Mordor. I say: local, ground level, hard boiled and street smart as in the early 20th century.

He and his colleagues are serious people who do fine and vital work. Here's the link to the YT page for his podcast, The Anti Empire Project: youtube.com/@justinpodur...

I'd appreciate that!

Very nice! If that paper will be open access I'm looking for to reading. As it happens, Ashby's black box concept and Beer's concept of levels of complexity were very helpful to help me parse LLM behaviors and avoid category errors.

I have not so it's now on my list! To return the favor, I suggest this work, about the first generation of UK cyberneticians, including, of course, Beer, whose work is brilliantly analyzed: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Exactly. Cybernetics pioneer Stafford Beer's statement that "the purpose of a system is what it does" applies to the ideological systems you mentioned and others (such as police violence) that persist.

Choosing physical media is always a good move. Streaming platforms are terrible as entities and unreliable for the long term. Things come and go due to endless corporate manipulation (such as Star Trek leaving Netflix International because of Paramount's US consolidation).

We present a typology of traps to avoid:

1. Believing that AI systems are minds

2. Believing that AI systems are theories

3. Believing that cognitive science can be automated.

Learn to recognise and avoid these traps. Failure to avoid leads to numerous problems.

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