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This is an interesting take that I don't think I have come across before. Thanks. Would you happen to have any further reading material on this topic either by
by zingababba 10mo ago
This is an interesting take that I don't think I have come across before. Thanks. Would you happen to have any further reading material on this topic either by yourself or others?
- TinyBig 10mo agoJames C. Scott’s Seeing Like a State is a useful lens here. Scott argues that modern states flattened human complexity into legible categories so they could govern: surnames, maps, censuses, standardized occupations. You lose a lot of nuance, but in theory the trade-off is that the state can then build institutions that serve the public. AI feels like a more extreme version of that flattening, but without the civic purpose that justified it. You end up with legibility without legitimacy. That’s the part I think we don’t have a good framework for yet.
- zingababba 10mo agoThanks I'll pick it up and finally read it. I've had it on my to-read forever but have never got around to it.