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I can give examples of things I think fit that, but not offer arguments - because some people can claim "meaning" in almost anything. A fairly clear one would
by nonrandomstring 2y ago
I can give examples of things I think fit that, but not offer
arguments - because some people can claim "meaning" in almost
anything.
A fairly clear one would be widespread "over-zealous use of
intellectual property technology to stifle culture". It's getting
easier to do with all kinds of digital handcuffs, TPMs, and mechanisms
that take agency and meaning away from the owner of a computer and
place it in the hands of who really controls the computer. It's
concomitant with "surveillance capitalism" but I think marks a
qualitative change from computers as enabling tools in the 20th
century, to systems of social control in the 21st. That marks a
significant change in the "meaning" of computers qua purpose, optimism
and opportunity (for everyone not just geeks and developers.) I feel
quite sure artists who worry about AI would say similar but in a
different way.