Meredith Whittaker on the origin of AI wave and consquences. Need to read this. #toread Current AI as 1980s insights now feasible on top of the massive data of bigtech silos. And Clinton admin wrt privacy and advertising in 1990s as the fautllines that enabled #socmed platform silos.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231129113513/https://emilygorcenski.com/post/making-god/

Via Roland Tanglao http://rolandtanglao.com/2023/11/26/p1-emily-f-gorcenski-making-god-millenarianism-manifest-destiny-aitechno-futurism/

https://web.archive.org/web/20231125130613/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/25/we-will-coup-whoever-we-want-the-unbearable-hubris-of-musk-and-the-billionaire-tech-bros

Douglas Rushkoff. Note remark on more horizontal ownership by tech billionaires. I'm not sure that is different. It likely was that way in the gilded age too. None of those others are dominant in their field as Rushkoff says was the limit of earlier billionaires.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231006143954/https://bryanalexander.org/future-trends-forum/social-media-platform-numbers-how-many-people-are-using-what-today/

Some numbers on the silos. Any EU/US exodus unnoticable in the bigger scheme of things. Commented on creating vs recreating networks for interaction

https://web.archive.org/web/20230328130227/https://librarian.aedileworks.com/2023/03/27/the-push-to-ai-is-meant-to-devalue-the-open-web-so-we-will-move-to-web3-for-compensation/

blogged https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2023/03/22930/