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Bernard Stiegler and a bunch of French philosophers have been writing about this idea of 'Algorithmic Governmentality' which I think is a useful way of discerni
by supernumerary 9y ago
Bernard Stiegler and a bunch of French philosophers have been writing about this idea of 'Algorithmic Governmentality' which I think is a useful way of discerning Mark Zuckerberg's intentions, press releases, denials etc aside.
"I would like to show that with algorithmic governmentality, what we
face is precisely a crisis of the regimes of truth. To my mind, we are less facing the
emergence of a new regime of truth than a crisis of regimes of truth. A whole range of
notions are in crisis: the notions of person, authority, testimony."
More here if you're interested:
https://iainmait.land/pdf/Rouvroy-Stiegler.pdf https://iainmait.land/pdf/Rouvroy-Stiegler.pdf
- chillingeffect 9y agolooks like a great contemporary read. Buckminster Fuller talked about the same thing in Cybernetics. He made the proposal that a feedback formula such as PID would lead to utopia when applied to government... but as many note, the problem is less about distribution of quantifiable resources than managing conflicting values.