Gisela
@gisela.bsky.social
Lecturer in Leadership and Command & Control, Stockholm. 🇸🇪 Interested in cognition 🧠 at work. IO Psych, organization and leadership. 📚 Book: ”Ostörd - Principer för en skärpt arbetsdag” Natur & Kultur.
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What we're seeing here is, I think, capital's instrumental rationality finally turning against science itself. We're seeing capital trying to emancipate itself from the need for human understanding. In this way, AI is anti-intellectualism being turned from a logic of capital into capital itself.
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
What we're seeing here is, I think, capital's instrumental rationality finally turning against science itself. We're seeing capital trying to emancipate itself from the need for human understanding. In this way, AI is anti-intellectualism being turned from a logic of capital into capital itself.
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"One can and should harbor doubts about how successful
models based on the current crop of machine learning techniques will ultimately be—but there is little reason to doubt what the aim is: to embed knowledge in machines—knowledge that previously belonged to the people working in these domains."
models based on the current crop of machine learning techniques will ultimately be—but there is little reason to doubt what the aim is: to embed knowledge in machines—knowledge that previously belonged to the people working in these domains."
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
"One can and should harbor doubts about how successful
models based on the current crop of machine learning techniques will ultimately be—but there is little reason to doubt what the aim is: to embed knowledge in machines—knowledge that previously belonged to the people working in these domains."
models based on the current crop of machine learning techniques will ultimately be—but there is little reason to doubt what the aim is: to embed knowledge in machines—knowledge that previously belonged to the people working in these domains."
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It's substituted by correlations in vast n-dimensional spaces. Inputs and outputs are clear, but what's in between is no longer a theory, a form of understanding, but simply constant capital, giant matrices getting multiplied in the vast VRAM world of GPUs. As we write in Why We Fear AI:
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
It's substituted by correlations in vast n-dimensional spaces. Inputs and outputs are clear, but what's in between is no longer a theory, a form of understanding, but simply constant capital, giant matrices getting multiplied in the vast VRAM world of GPUs. As we write in Why We Fear AI:
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The internal aim of science is understanding, even if the external one (the reason it gets funded) are to produce competitive advantages (economic, military, etc).
For science, measurements and correlations are tools, used to get at causality as part of that understanding. In AI causality vanishes
For science, measurements and correlations are tools, used to get at causality as part of that understanding. In AI causality vanishes
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The internal aim of science is understanding, even if the external one (the reason it gets funded) are to produce competitive advantages (economic, military, etc).
For science, measurements and correlations are tools, used to get at causality as part of that understanding. In AI causality vanishes
For science, measurements and correlations are tools, used to get at causality as part of that understanding. In AI causality vanishes
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its production the same way capital seeks to industrialize anything, making the workers (in this case, it would be scientists) into appendages of machinery, into gears in a system whose overall working they ought not understand, lest they derive bargaining power from that fact.
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
its production the same way capital seeks to industrialize anything, making the workers (in this case, it would be scientists) into appendages of machinery, into gears in a system whose overall working they ought not understand, lest they derive bargaining power from that fact.
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If only we could remove that dialectical moment of resistance, that possibility for opposition, and keep the advantages that capital derives from science anyway. That is clearly the hope here, rooted both in a drive to shut down inconvenient truths, and to cheapen scientific output, to industrialize
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
If only we could remove that dialectical moment of resistance, that possibility for opposition, and keep the advantages that capital derives from science anyway. That is clearly the hope here, rooted both in a drive to shut down inconvenient truths, and to cheapen scientific output, to industrialize
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Capitalism certainly does not fund science to speak truth to power. But precisely because science cannot make due without a concept of truth, it sometimes cannot help but speak truth to power anyways. An obvious case is climate change, where scientific truth conflicts clearly with the profit motive.
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Capitalism certainly does not fund science to speak truth to power. But precisely because science cannot make due without a concept of truth, it sometimes cannot help but speak truth to power anyways. An obvious case is climate change, where scientific truth conflicts clearly with the profit motive.
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Tbf the learn to code people were the guys who had to pay the programmers, and they’ve gotten what they wanted. Now they are trying to get everyone to into trades to lower their HVAC bills
December 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Tbf the learn to code people were the guys who had to pay the programmers, and they’ve gotten what they wanted. Now they are trying to get everyone to into trades to lower their HVAC bills